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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.

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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
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
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
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
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
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test

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