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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
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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Christian Order Running
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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