But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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