The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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 past is not what it was.
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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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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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