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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

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