Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.

The Sparks: Refutation of Heretics and Innovators

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Every church is orthodox to itself; to others, erroneous or heretical.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.