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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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