Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe past is not what it was.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The past is not what it was.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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