One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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