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Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt-the Divine Reason.... We are on the road to productin g a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. 
G.K. Chesterton
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To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Truth0If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
Ten Commandments, Law, Secularism0Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
Truth, Relativism0The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?
Truth0Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.
Truth0The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Statism, Education, Indoctrination0It 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.
Evolution, Creation0Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Truth, Logical Fallacies0we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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Bad theology kills. So get rid of the adjective, not the noun. Ditch the bad. Keep the theology.
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Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.
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Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of the opening of the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Truth, Openness0Brothers, for the sake of the truth, and for the good of your people, and for the glory of God in the world, don't confuse timid uncertainty with truthful humility.
Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)Truth0Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)
We cannot know like God knows (archetypal), but we can know as God wants and allows and helps us to know (ectypal).
Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)Truth0Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Speech, Truth0We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.
Truth0If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Atheism, Apologetics0There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.
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We cannot help it if the truth offends people, but we must always make sure that it is the truth that is offending them and not us.
Truth0And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
Revelation, Commentaries0The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Wonder, Creation0What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
Criticism, Self0We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
Truth0We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
God's Wrath, Fear of God0
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