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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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

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