It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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