Catholicism Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholicism Christianity Enough Hot Modern Modern society Rags
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water. — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open.… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity. — David Platt Copy Share Image
“The “waters” of modern Christianity are so muddied precisely because we each do whatever we like.” — Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live… — Bible Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Forgive my friends and me for every time we have looked at someone different and considered her or him to be of lesser quality.… — Jos Chp 2 Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image