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

G. K. Chesterton

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
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
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

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