Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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