G. K. Chesterton is known as the “Apostle of Common Sense”

“The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”

“Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

“I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”

“A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

“When man ceases to believe in God he does not then believe in nothing but rather in anything.”

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”

“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”