To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Those 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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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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