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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

G. K. Chesterton

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
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
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

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