These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves 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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