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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Christian Mass Reckless
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Art Brain Spiritual
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
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
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
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
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
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
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
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
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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny

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