It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONO God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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