No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. CHESTERTONPassion makes every detail important.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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