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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
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
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
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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

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