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

G. K. Chesterton

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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View

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

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