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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time

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