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. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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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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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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