From my favourite quotations from Chesterton:
About Faith: "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people".
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists".
About the Cult of Progress:
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around"
"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision".
"Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle."
You will find far more here:
http://www.chesterton.org/quotations...esterton/#Love