I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.