One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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