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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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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
— Elbert Hubbard
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
— Mircea Eliade
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If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its…
— Harry Allen Overstreet
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You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir…
— Shannon Lucid
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Counting blessings is better than recounting problems
— Russell M. Nelson
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A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
— Pierre Corneille
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Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic…
— Robert Pinsky
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
— Pierre Corneille
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological…
— Paul Tournier
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Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting…
— Arthur Japin
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See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was…
— Sarah Dessen
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