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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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