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The test of happiness is gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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 dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth

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