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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Half Literature Mean
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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