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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

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective

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