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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

G. K. Chesterton

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
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

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