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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
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
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild

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