The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTONJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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