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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

G. K. Chesterton

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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