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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

G. K. Chesterton

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word

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