A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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