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“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities. When Italy is mad on art the Church seems too Puritanical; when England is mad on Puritanism the Church seems too artistic. When you quarrel with us now you class us with kingship and despotism; but when you quarrelled with us first it was because we would not accept the divine despotism of Henry VIII. The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times; it is waiting till the last fad shall have seen its last summer. It keeps the key of a permanent virtue.” (The Ball and the Cross Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“I want to be taken to a madhouse,” said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. “I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came.” “Why?” asked the unknown. “Because I want a little sane and wholesome society,” answered Turnbull.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“You can’t be angry with bad men. But a good man in the wrong—why one thirsts for his blood.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
“You complain of Catholicism for setting up an ideal of virginity; it did nothing of the kind. The whole human race set up an ideal of virginity; the Greeks in Athene, the Romans in the Vestal fire, set up an ideal of virginity. What then is your real quarrel with Catholicism? Your quarrel can only be, your quarrel really only is, that Catholicism has _achieved_ an ideal of virginity; that it is no longer a mere piece of floating poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
