Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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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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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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