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atheist if-there-is-a-god atheism
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun
atheist believe men
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist men empires
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism argument
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist optimism miracle
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism not-interested
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist bigots
There is no bigot like the atheist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist atheism negative
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. Gilbert K. Chesterton
atheist religion atheism
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking able taxation
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering
thinking soul mind
When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself. Demi Lovato
thinking interesting rhyme
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone. Demetri Martin
thinking blessing bed
I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. Dale Evans
thinking animal might
Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think. Daniel Pinkwater
thinking important painful
I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful. Damien Hirst
thinking judged unlovable
I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable. Cynthia Nixon
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. Anais Nin
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self people transformation
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Susan Sontag
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. Roger Rosenblatt
self true-self creator
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. Thomas Merton
self problem existence
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him. Thomas Merton
self needs firsts
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost. Thomas Merton
self order identity
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. Thomas Merton
self disease contemplation
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle