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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

G. K. Chesterton

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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
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
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself

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