The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONTo love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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