Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
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.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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