A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing 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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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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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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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