Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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 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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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