Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Catholicism

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Catholic, Reason, Explaining

• Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rags, Hot, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

• In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Together, Fit

• The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, People, Wake Up

• In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Unique, Church, Easy

• Catholicism 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. Chesterton

  Fighting, Past, Asceticism

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