Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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