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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

G. K. Chesterton

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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