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.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
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