The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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