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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

G. K. Chesterton

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
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
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

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