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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Christianity Morality Religion
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
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
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
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
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
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
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
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
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Boy Men Son Unsullied