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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Church Need Thinking
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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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Art Brain Spiritual
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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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Darkness Fact Simple
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test

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