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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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.
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of the opening of the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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.
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.
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