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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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