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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

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