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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

G. K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves 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
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 are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth

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