One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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 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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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