The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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 need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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