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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dark Flower Sky
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
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
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
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
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank

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