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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Book Hero Read
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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
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
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You