chesterton on dogma

I was just reading Chesterton's The Thing. It sounds like a horror title, and, in fact is a horror title of a kind. It's full of his sharp thinking, uncommonsense wit, and slightly clunky sentences. One stuck out for me.

When the journalist says for the thousandth time, "Living religion is not in dull and dusty dogmas, etc." we must stop him with a sort of shout and say, "There — you go wrong at the very start." If he would condescend to ask what the dogmas are, he would find out that it is precisely the dogmas that are living, that are inspiring, that are intellectually interesting. Zeal and charity and unction are admirable as flowers and fruit.