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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

G. K. Chesterton

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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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 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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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
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

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