Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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