Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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