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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

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 sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational

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