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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

G. K. Chesterton

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
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
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
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
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
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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