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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.

G. K. Chesterton

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild

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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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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