When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONMoral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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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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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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