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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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

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