The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay 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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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