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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

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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?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand

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