Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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