Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
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.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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.
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.
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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