Religion and Faith

• "One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created" - The Boston Sunday Post, 1/16/21.
• "The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people" - ILN, 7/16/10.
• "If there were no God, there would be no atheists" - Where All Roads Lead, 1922.
• "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions" - ILN, 1/13/06.
• "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried" - Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910.
• "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907
• "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" - Charles Dickens.
• "Theology is only thought applied to religion" - The New Jerusalem.
• "The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden" - ILN 1-3-20.
• "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own" - ILN 8-11-28.
• "Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake" - Blake.

All this has been selected from "American Chesterton Society".

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