God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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