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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

G. K. Chesterton

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
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
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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love

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