We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCatholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton