It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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