The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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