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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.

G. K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory

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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