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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial

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