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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.

G. K. Chesterton

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
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
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman

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