Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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