Robert > Robert's Quotes

“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
― George Orwell

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.

[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
― Benjamin Constant

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
― Pablo Picasso

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”
― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
― Thomas Sowell

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
― J.I. Packer, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

“Make careful choice of the books which you read:
let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.
Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and
hands and other books be used as subservient to it.

While reading ask yourself:

1. Could I spend this time no better?

2. Are there better books that would edify me more?

3. Are the lovers of such a book as this the greatest
lovers of the Book of God and of a holy life?

4. Does this book increase my love to the Word of God,
kill my sin, and prepare me for the life to come?

"The words of the wise are like goads, their collected
sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd.
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of
making many books there is no end, and much study
wearies the body." Ecclesiastes 12:11-12”
― Richard Baxter

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill