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

G. K. Chesterton

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTON

God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
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
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
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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

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