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

G. K. Chesterton

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
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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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