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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

G. K. Chesterton

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder

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