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

G. K. Chesterton

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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
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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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 past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible

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