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

G. K. Chesterton

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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
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
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird

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