And it is a fact that books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.
At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men--those who reject and those who worship God--becomes irrepressible.
Evil is not something that can be condescended to, waved aside, or smiled away, for it is not merely an uninvited guest, but lies coiled...at home with good within ourselves. Evil can only be fought.
For the revolution is never stronger than the failure of civilization. Communism is never stronger than the failure of other faiths.
God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor.
How silly to suppose that any man by his own efforts can ever save himself.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
In any case, God commands us to have courage; he does not command us to be fools.
In the end there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul.
In the last instance, men must act on what they believe right, not on what they believe probable.
It was Communism that was evil, and the more truly a man acted in its spirit and interest, the more certainly he perpetuated evil.
Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible.
Religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless and forever fail--the point at which man senses the mystery of his good and evil, his suffering and his destiny, as a soul in search of God.
The spirit, if it truly stirs, never brings peace, but always brings a sword. Submission to the spirit may bring peace. But the spirit itself, aroused in man or nation, is a blade that exists to divide the truth from untruth, the living from the dead, the conformist from the Christian.
There has never been a society or a nation without God. But history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died.
Why is it that thirty years after the greatest revolution in history, the Communists have not produced one single inspired work of the mind? What is our lack?... I asked at last: can it be God?