The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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