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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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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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking

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