Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONA 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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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