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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves

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