Last Writes

I hope this book has helped us see the Church, and maybe even our country, a little bit better than before – see her beauty, see her goodness, and see, on a deeper level, the truth of things. Let us be not only strong and steadfast, but loyal and true.

“It is impossible to be just to the Catholic Church. The moment men cease to pull against it, they feel a tug toward it. The moment they cease to shout it down, they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it, they begin to be fond of it.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion

“But it is one thing to conclude that Catholicism is good and another to conclude that it is right. It is one thing to conclude that it is right and another to conclude that it is always right.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion

“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.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Why I Am A Catholic

“The world deceived me, and the Church would at any time have undeceived me.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion

“The fact is this: that the modern world, with its modern movements, is living on its Catholic capital. It is using, and using up, the truths that remain to it out of the old treasury of Christendom, including, of course, many truths known to pagan antiquity but crystallized in Christendom.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Thing: Why I Am A Catholic