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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.

G. K. Chesterton

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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

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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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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