The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
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