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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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