The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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 no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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