Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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