When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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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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