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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?

G. K. Chesterton

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
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship

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