Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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