Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The past is not what it was.
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