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The past is not what it was.

G. K. Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water

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