Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Atheism

• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

• Atheism is too theological.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism, Theological

• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

• The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heaven, Atheism, Nihilism

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

• Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

• The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism, Masterpiece, Extraordinary

• Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Negative

• The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Not Interested

• There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Argument

• Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Evil, Catholic

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, October 23, 1909.

• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, People, Atheism

• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, God, Believe

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