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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
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
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
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
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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

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