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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

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration 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
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
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
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
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
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
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
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
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
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
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
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
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance