There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONA 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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The past is not what it was.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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[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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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