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.
G. K. CHESTERTON[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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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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