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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
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
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Failure Trouble World
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
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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Believe Country Government People
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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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Church Need Thinking