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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
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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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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