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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

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
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
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
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution 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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
[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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves

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