Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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 there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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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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