It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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