“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.”
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”
“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
“Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.”
“In so far as I am Man I am the chief of creatures. In so far as I am a Man I am the chief of sinners.”
“There is only one very timid sort of man that is not afraid of women.”
“When a man has found something which he prefers to life, he then for the first time begins to live.”
“Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know that they have done nothing but evil in the past.”
“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
