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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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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
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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition

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