The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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