If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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To 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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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