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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

G. K. Chesterton

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True

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