People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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