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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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
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
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
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 a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
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
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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
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
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
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
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
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
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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