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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.

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
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water

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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