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It is always the secure who are humble.

G. K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain 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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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

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