G. K. Chesterton über katholische Tugenden

Ein wahres Wort, gerade heute:

"The human race has always admired the Catholic virtues, however little it can practise them; and oddly enough it has admired most those of them that the modern world most sharply disputes."
The Ball and the Cross, New York: John Lane Co., 1910

Auch seine Meinung über "modern dogmas" ist noch immer sehr treffend:

"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas upon no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with 'they say' or 'don't you know that?' or try (and fail) to remember the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
The superstition of Divorce, New York: John Lane Co., 1920

Und die Presse schien Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts auch nicht viel besser gewesen zu sein als heute:

"Everything in a newspaper that is not the old human love of altar or fatherland is the old human love of gossip."
Tremendous Trifles, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917

(Gefunden in: The Quotable Chesterton, G. J. Marlin, R. P. Rabatin, J. L. Swan, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1986)

G. K. Chesterton über die Kirche

"The Catholic Church is much too universal to be called international, for she is older than all the nations. She is not some sort of new bridge to be built between these separated islands; she is the very earth and ocean-bed on which they are build."
G.K.C. as M.C., London: Methuen and Co., 1929

"There are only two things that really progress; and they both accept accumulations of authority... they have steadily advanced in a certain definable direction; they are the only two things, it seems, that ever can progress. The first is strictly physical science. The second is the Catholic Church."
The Ball and the Cross, New York: John Lane Co., 1910

"... it is, in the exact sense of the popular phrase, like nothing on earth."
The Thing: Why I am a Catholic, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1946

"Reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the last borderland of things. I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason."
The Father Brown Omnibus, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1951

... und über die Welt:

"The world takes the trouble to make a big mistake about every little mistake made by the Church."
The Ball and the Cross, New York: John Lane Co., 1910
(Womit hier nicht gesagt sein soll, dass die Kirche nicht auch große Fehler macht.)

Über den Katholizismus:

"A century or two hence Spiritualism may be a tradition and Socialism may be a tradition and Christian Science may be a tradition. But Catholicism will not be a tradition. It will still be a nuisance and a new and dangerous thing."
The Catholic Church and Conversion, New York: Macmillan Co., 1951

... und über den katholischen Glauben:

"The present writer ... is personally quite convinced that if every human being lived a thousand years, every human being would end up either in utter pessimistic scepticism or in the Catholic creed."
William Blake, London: Duckworth and Co.

(Gefunden in: The Quotable Chesterton, G. J. Marlin, R. P. Rabatin, J. L. Swan, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1986)