Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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