Gilbert K. Chesterton Catholic Quotations

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.