The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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