If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONWe fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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