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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

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 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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth

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