The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChristianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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