Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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