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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

G. K. Chesterton

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand

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