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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

G. K. Chesterton

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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
[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
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition

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