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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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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake…
— Benjamin Wiker
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon…
— Winston Churchill
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People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.
— Unknown Author
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind…
— C.S. Lewis
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Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.…
— Francois Fenelon
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
— Robertson Davies
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon…
— Euripides
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in…
— Bertrand Russell
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One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What…
— Dorothy Day
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