A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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