[Notwithstanding]

I believe it was Chesterton who said something like this: Sitting in a pew makes man a Catholic to the same extent sitting in a car makes him a car.

DON’T read Chesterton if you would hate being Catholic - his works convert countless many.

[stpio]

“DON’T read Chesterton if you would hate being Catholic - his works convert countless many.”

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I can’t pick a favorite Chesterton quote. Here’s one on Confession (John 20:23).

When a Catholic comes from confession, he does truly, by definition, step out into that dawn of his own beginning... in that brief ritual God has really remade him in His own image. He may be grey and gouty; but he is only five minutes old.

[Notwithstanding]

Correction: “....sitting in a garage makes him a car.”