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#1

“every life should be a quest to achieve the goal of heaven through a growth in virtue, thereby attaining the power, through grace, to overcome the monsters and demons which seek to prevent the achievement of this paramount goal. It is in this way and with this understanding of the meaning and purpose of life that we are meant to read The Hobbit and it is in this way, and this way alone, that we find its deepest and most applicable meaning.”
― Joseph Pearce, Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in The Hobbit

tags: catholic, catholicism

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#2

“The dragon sickness is a euphemism for the bourgeois materialism which is rife in our consumerist culture. Smaug’s fury at the loss of a single insignificant and practically useless trinket serves as a metaphor for modern man and his mania for possessing trash that he doesn’t need.”
― Joseph Pearce, Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in "The Hobbit"

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#3

“It is no wonder that Mary loves our day and age. Thanks to persecution, we are giving more to her Son than any other age or day since Calvary. The Nazis in Germany, Austria, and Poland; The Reds in all the Balkan lands, Russia, and now in China, have done more for heaven than ever did the Roman Caesars, the kings and queens of England, or the madmen of the French Revolution. They have done more for the earth, too. For while peopling heaven with martyrs, they have also spread far and wide the grace of Christ Jesus, thanks to the oneness of His mystical body.”
― M. Raymond, God, A Woman, And The Way: Mediator And Mediatrix

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism

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#4

“We receive God's Will only in fragments; tiny fragments; one to each new now. It is our business to take them and piece them together, to fashion them into the design that is His and has been His from all eternity. What that design is we shall see only at our last moment. It will be perfect as God wills it to be perfect only if we live His Will in the now, the only fragment that is ours, the only fragment of God's plan that is allowed in our hands, the only fragment of Christ's life in us and our life in Christ that can be lived. But it is only by "gathering up these fragments, lest they be lost" that we can really live and attain life's only success - sainthood.”
― M. Raymond, Now!

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism

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#5

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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#6

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#7

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity

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#8

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

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#9

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: humor, leibniz, religion, watchmaker

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#10

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: gullibility

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#11

“. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that comes from finding a set of books, dusty and tucked away in the back corner of some store? The computer can only reproduce the information in a book, and never the joyful experience of reading it.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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#12

“One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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#13

“I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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#14

“Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.

If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

tags: humor

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#15

“Along with tableity (the condition of being a table) and paneity (the state of being bread), cellarhood is a wonderful example of the spectacular ways English has of describing things that no ever thinks it necessary to describe.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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#16

“Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin...but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves.”
― Frank Peretti, The Oath

tags: christian, inspirational, suspense, the-oath

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#17

“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

tags: wisdom

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#18

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: experimentation, facts, knowledge, science, scientific-method, truth

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#19

“Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
― Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholicism, inspiration, religion

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#20

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bad-laws, catholic, catholic-author, christian, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, error, error-and-truth, evil-laws, gadfly, hard-truths, justice, justice-system, law, laws, morality, morals, philosophical, politics, referrendum, right-and-wrong, truth, voting, votings, wisdom

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#21

“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: blame, blame-game, catholic, catholic-author, christian, gadfly, god, good, good-and-evil, goodness, human-nature, pain, satan, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, sufferings, thought-provoking

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#22

“Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

tags: abortion, catholic, christian, cruelty, gadfly, genocide, human-rights, infanticide, mass-destruction, murder, pro-life, prolife, stand-up-for-what-is-right, thought-provoking, twitter-quotes, violence, weapons, weapons-of-mass-destruction

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#23

“However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”
― Pope Pius XI

tags: abortion, catholic, catholicism

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#24

“Let us thank God that He makes us live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.”
― Pope Pius XI

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism

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#25

“An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.”
― Thomas Moore

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

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#26

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
― Roger Lewin

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling

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#27

“As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

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#28

“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.”
― Rachel Gathercole, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling

tags: children, education, homeschool, homeschooling, parenting

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#29

“Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.”
― Tamara L. Chilver

tags: and-homeschooling, christian, education, grace-filled-homeschool, homekeeper, homeschool, homeschool-authors, homeschool-mom-encouragement, inspirational, teaching, the-battle-is-real

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#30

“I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.”
― Tamara L. Chilver

tags: christian, grace-filled-homeschool, homekeeper, homeschool, homeschool-authors, homeschool-mom-encouragement, inspirational, the-battle-is-real

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