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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G. K. Chesterton

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
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

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