A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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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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Christianity 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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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