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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
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
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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

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