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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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
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
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
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
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
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
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
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
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
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
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
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
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
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