Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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