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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

G. K. Chesterton

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
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
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
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hard Time Perspective Rain 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
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
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTON

Command Government Man Rule
[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
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fight Love Yourself
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible

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