"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)
"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."
G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)
"Take away religion and we are truly reduced to the condition of talking animals…"
David Warren, “Sunday Spectator,” in Ottawa Citizen May 15, 2005
"Public thinkers such as politicians and members of the media who comment on them are the first generation of our society to have been badly schooled without being aware of the fact."
"Mad Intelligence” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us
"We do care far more about all sorts of things and people than is at all rational if this life is all…"
James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity
"The two distinctive doctrines of Christianity are Original Sin and Salvation, the very bad news that no one else dares tell us and the very good news that no one else has a right to tell us."
Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained
"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."
G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton