Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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