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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?

G. K. Chesterton

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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude

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