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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* "The one doctrine of Christianity which is empirically verifiable is the [[Fall of man|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 [[Fall of man|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."
* "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."