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G. K. Chesterton on Religion

1874–1936 England

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7 quotes

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

All Things Considered (1908)

Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the word "vague."

Charles Dickens (1906)

I am not arguing with the scientist who explains the elephant, but only with the sophist who explains it away.

The Everlasting Man (1925)

I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

It searched for truth not by synthesis but by subdivision. It not only broke religion into small pieces, but it was bound to choose the smallest piece.

What I Saw in America (1922)

Small sins are sometimes harder to confess than big ones... but that's why it's important to confess them.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

St. Thomas Aquinas (1933)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. K. Chesterton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.