The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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 extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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