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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

G. K. Chesterton

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself

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