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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

G. K. Chesterton

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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

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