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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

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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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
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
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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