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.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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