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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.

G. K. Chesterton

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
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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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
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 is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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

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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