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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

G. K. Chesterton

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
[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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch

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