For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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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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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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