The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton Quotes

“When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man

“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man

“The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet the things we do not like or do not expect.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man

“A great many people talk as if this claim of ours, that all things are poetical, were a mere literary ingenuity, a play on words. Precisely the contrary is true. It is the idea that some things are not poetical which is literary, which is a mere product of words.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man

“A clergyman may be apparently as useless as a cat, but he is also as fascinating, for there must be some strange reason for his existence.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man

“The human race, according to religion, fell once, and in falling gained knowledge of good and of evil. Now we have fallen a second time, and only the knowledge of evil remains to us.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man