Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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.
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