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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

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
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.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk

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