Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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