Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT 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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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