One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The 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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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