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• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
• One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
• You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
• The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
• We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
• Total war is the most humane in the long run.
• Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
• If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
• Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
• A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
• I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…

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