Overcoming Quote by Whittaker Chambers

“True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.”

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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

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It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only…

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