Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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