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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G. K. Chesterton

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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun

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