Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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