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Chocolate stimulates the same part of the brain that morphine acts on. For all intents and purposes, chocolate is a drug—not necessarily a bad one and not a terribly strong one, but strong enough nonetheless to keep us coming back for more.
“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
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“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”
― Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
― Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
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