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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

G. K. Chesterton

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity

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