America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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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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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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