The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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