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. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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[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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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