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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
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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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work

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