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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

G. K. Chesterton

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem

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