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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
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.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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

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