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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
Ten Commandments, Law, Secularism0We 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.
Truth, Relativism0The 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.
Statism, Education, Indoctrination0It 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.
Evolution, Creation0Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Truth, Logical Fallacies0Merely 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.
Truth, Openness0A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Speech, Truth0If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Atheism, Apologetics0although indeed 'God is love', yet we have to remember that his love is 'holy love', love which yearns over sinners while at the same time refusing to condone their sin.
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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.
Revelation, Commentaries0The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Wonder, Creation0What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
Criticism, Self0To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
Love0We 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.
God's Wrath, Fear of God0The 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.
Goodness, Truth0Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Thought, Thinking0To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Forgiveness, Faith, Hope0I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Thankfulness, Happiness, Wonder0The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Religion, Faith0There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Possessions, Contentment0Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death wherein the lover dies to himself and all his own interest, not thinking of them nor caring for them anymore, and minding nothing but how he may please and gratify the party whom he loves.
Love0Love is a commanding affection, a uniting grace; it draws all the faculties of the soul to one center. The soul that loves God, when it hath to do with Him, is bound to the beloved object; it can mind nothing else during such impressions. When the affection is set to the worship of God, everything the soul hath will be bestowed upon it.
Love0Love is the commander of the soul, and therefore God knows that if He has our hearts, He has all, for all the rest are at His command; for it is, as it were, the nature of the will, which is the commanding faculty, and its object is the ultimate end which is the commanding object. Love sets the mind on thinking, the tongue on speaking, the hands on working, the feet on going, and every faculty obeys its command.
Love0The heart thus opened to the Lord, when God is come in, will close upon Him. Abide with me; Thou hast entered upon Thy habitation. O let this be Thy dwelling forever. Only this must be further added, that with God it takes in all things of God: His word, His ordinances, His ways, and all His dispensations. With His love, His laws; with His comforts, His counsels; with His counsels, His corrections.
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there is a sinful self-love when either we love that for a self which is not ourself, when we love our flesh and fleshly interest, or when we love ourselves inordinately more than God, and God only for ourselves. And there is a lawful self-love when we love ourselves in the Lord and for the Lord. And the more we thus love ourselves, the more is the Lord loved by us; and the more He is our own, the more love He hath. Now in Christ the Lord is our God.
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