America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONO 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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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