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#1

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: free-will, religion

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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

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#3

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

tags: alcohol, drinking, happy

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#4

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heart, love, quip, reason

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#5

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#6

“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: humor, letter

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#7

“Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: knowledge

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#8

“If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place. ”
― Blaise Pascal

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#9

“Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.”
― Peter Kreeft

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#10

“Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".”
― Peter Kreeft, Before I Go: Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters

tags: christianity, god, god-is-a-comedian, theology

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#11

“Love gives you eyes.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christianity, eyes, inspirational, jesus-shock, love, philosophy, spirituality, theology

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#12

“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: boredom, catholicism, christianity, jesus-shock, philosophy, sloth, spirituality, theology, violence

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#13

“If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.”
― Peter Kreeft

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#14

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

tags: catholicism, christianity, church, expectations, god, happiness, lovers, marriage, philosophy, relationship-with-god, relationships, religion, spirituality, unhappy-marriage

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#15

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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#16

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

tags: catholic, catholicism, christianity, criticism, judgement, philosophy, spirituality

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#17

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, christianity, philosophy, spirituality

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#18

“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholicism, confession, humor, religion, simile

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#19

“The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: catholicism

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#20

“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”
― Karl Rahner, The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, prayer, religion, theology

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#21

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholicism, united-states, united-states-of-america

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#22

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: boredom, catholicism, christianity, jesus-shock, philosophy, pleasure, spirituality, theology

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#23

“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christianity, faith, god, jesus-shock, philosophy, spirituality, theology, truth

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#24

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#25

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#26

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#27

“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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#28

“Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

tags: anti-religious, catholic, catholicism, christianity, god, religion, sinners

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#29

“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, christianity, ethics, morality, philosophy

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#30

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

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