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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

G. K. Chesterton

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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