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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.

G. K. Chesterton

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
We 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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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Deep Eyes See

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