All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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It’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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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