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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
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
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See

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