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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
O 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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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself

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