An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTONThose who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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