The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTON
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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