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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

G. K. Chesterton

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder

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