Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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