Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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