There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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 essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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 greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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