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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

G. K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing

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