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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
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
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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