The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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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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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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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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