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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

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
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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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth

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