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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
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 problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People

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