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.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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 problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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