The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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 is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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