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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…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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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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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
— Jefferson Davis
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
— Isaac Newton
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be…
— David Hume
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After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,…
— Arundhati Roy
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation.…
— Charles Albert Gobat
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