When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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