| | * "When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything." | | * "When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything." |
| | * "The one doctrine of Christianity which is empirically verifiable is the fallenness of man."<ref>{{cite web |author=G.K. Chesterton |title=Orthodoxy |publisher=Harold Shaw Publishers |place=Wheaton, IL |year=1994 |pages=11 |url=https://faithsearch.org/LeadersManual/SBFSDG_LeadersManual_ch08.pdf}}</ref> | | * "The one doctrine of Christianity which is empirically verifiable is the fallenness of man."<ref>{{cite web |author=G.K. Chesterton |title=Orthodoxy |publisher=Harold Shaw Publishers |place=Wheaton, IL |year=1994 |pages=11 |url=https://faithsearch.org/LeadersManual/SBFSDG_LeadersManual_ch08.pdf}}</ref> |
| | * "Nothing is more common, for instance, than to find such a modem critic writing something like this: 'Christianity was above all a movement of ascetics, a rush into the desert, a refuge in the cloister, a renunciation of all life and happiness; and this was a part of a gloomy and inhuman reaction against nature itself, a hatred of the body, a horror of the material universe, a sort of universal suicide of the senses and even of the self. It came from an eastern fanaticism like that of the fakirs and was ultimately founded on an eastern pessimism, which seems to feel existence itself as an evil.' Now the most extraordinary thing about this is that it is all quite true; it is true in every, detail except that it happens to be attributed entirely to the wrong person. It is not true of the Church; but it is true of the heretics condemned by the Church." | | * "Nothing is more common, for instance, than to find such a modem critic writing something like this: 'Christianity was above all a movement of ascetics, a rush into the desert, a refuge in the cloister, a renunciation of all life and happiness; and this was a part of a gloomy and inhuman reaction against nature itself, a hatred of the body, a horror of the material universe, a sort of universal suicide of the senses and even of the self. It came from an eastern fanaticism like that of the fakirs and was ultimately founded on an eastern pessimism, which seems to feel existence itself as an evil.' Now the most extraordinary thing about this is that it is all quite true; it is true in every, detail except that it happens to be attributed entirely to the wrong person. It is not true of the Church; but it is true of the heretics condemned by the Church." |