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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
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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Art Brain Spiritual
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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.
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Men Secret Sublime
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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Apology Integrity Men
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 Discipline Wall
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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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Country People Regard Riddle
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
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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Darkness Fact Simple
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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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Courage Day Strong Veteran
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart