Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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