The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt 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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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