No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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