Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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