When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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