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.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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