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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

G. K. Chesterton

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious

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