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.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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.
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
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