The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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