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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
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.
The 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.
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.
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
We 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.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
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.
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
It teaches us humility. As we were from Adam, so he was from the dust of the earth, and that dust from nothing. Our father was Adam, our grandfather dust, our great-grandfather nothing.Exposition Epistle of Jude, 299
There is nothing more profitable in the world than humility, because, though it seems to have nothing, yet it carries the soul to Him who fills all in all.
even in one's very bearing and tone of voice: not lowly towards one, and rude towards another; be lowly towards all men, be he friend or foe, be he great or small.Ephesians Commentary
Let us, at the very commencement of our meditations, admit that there is nothing so natural to man, nothing so insidious and hidden from our sight, nothing so difficult and dangerous, as pride. Let us feel that nothing but a very determined and persevering waiting on God and Christ will discover how lacking we are in the grace of humility, and how impotent to obtain what we seek. Let us study the character of Christ until our souls are filled with the love and admiration of His lowliness.Humility, Ch 1
Jesus Christ took the place and fulfilled the destiny of man, as a creature, by His life of perfect humility. His humility is our salvation. His salvation is our humility.Humility, Chapter 1
The life God bestows is imparted not once for all, but each moment continuously, by the unceasing operation of His mighty power. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.Humility, Chapter 1
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