“It is just as easy to massacre men in the name of Man as to burn churches in the name of God. It is as feasible to decree inhumanity in humanitarian language as to decree sacrilege in sacred language.” —G K Chesterton. 

“I write chiefly because I find so many people quite comically wrong.”  —G K Chesterton.

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.” —G K Chesterton. 

“Modern people will never settle their problems until they understand that the shortest cut to the practical is through the theoretical.” —G K Chesterton. 

“We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.” —G K Chesterton. 

“An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that…some dogma was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.” —G K Chesterton. 

“If you knowingly permit unreasonable judgments, they will very soon be unjust judgments. If you knowingly permit unjust judgments they will very soon be cruel judgments.” —G K Chesterton. 

“If there was one thing which we did suppose was done for us by civilization, it was to make us civil. The very word politeness is really the Greek for civilization, just as the very word civilization is really Latin for politeness.” —G K Chesterton. 

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton. 

“The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially sexual morality. And it is coming…from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last…The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.” —G K Chesterton. 

“What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” —G K Chesterton. 

“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.” —G K Chesterton. 

“A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other’s hands is not an everlasting coincidence.” –G K Chesterton. 

“If Christianity should happen to be true, then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.” —G K Chesterton.