One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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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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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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