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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory

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