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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

G. K. Chesterton

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth

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