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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

G. K. Chesterton

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
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
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder

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