One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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