God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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