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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* "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>
* "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
* "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
*"Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/472193-christendom-has-had-a-series-of-revolutions-and-in-each</ref>
*"Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/472193-christendom-has-had-a-series-of-revolutions-and-in-each</ref>
*“For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back … The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.”<ref>G.K. Chesterton, "The Next Heresy," in G.K.’s Weekly, June 19, 1926.</ref>
*“For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back … The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.”<ref>G.K. Chesterton, "The Next Heresy," in G.K.’s Weekly, June 19, 1926.</ref>
=== Quote often falsely attributed to G.K. Chesterton ===
* "When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything."(G.K. Chesterton likely never said this, but the saying is often attributed to him)<ref>[https://www.chesterton.org/ceases-to-worship/ When Man Ceases to Worship God]. The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton website)</ref> See also: [[Atheism and gullibility]]
==References==
==References==