For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The past is not what it was.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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