These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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