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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

G. K. Chesterton

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
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 isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
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

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