Orthodoxy

by G.K. Chesterton

For if this book is a joke it is a joke against me. I am the man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before.

I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.