KarenElissa’s Submitted Quotes

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Don't blame the darkness for being dark. Blame the light for not shining on the dark.

Look, if God hasn't called them to a particular gutter, like secular musicians, for example, then by all means they shouldn't go into that gutter. But I think they get confused and determine that since they aren't called to that gutter, no one is called to that gutter.

But in my experience, evil isn't a cultural phenomena, it's a human one.

Bible reading should be dangerous to my life and the status quo - transformation is better than information.

Can you imagine God lecturing his chosen people about radioactive decay?

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

After God, let us have our conscience as our mentor and rule in all things, so that we may know which way the wind is blowing and set our sails accordingly.

We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.

Dear Sirs,

I am.

Sincerely yours,
G. K. Chesterton

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found hard and left untried.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong, it may be a sign that he is thinking.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can’t see the way ahead.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and world's deep hunger meet.

The Fuhrer was of the opinion that killing the incurably ill would be easier and smoother to carry out in wartime, since the public resistance of the churches would not play such a prominent role amidst the events of wartime as it otherwise would.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.