When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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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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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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