Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Atheist

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

• 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.

• The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

• When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Believe, Men

• If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Believe, Doctors

• 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

• 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

• I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Men, Logic

• Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Men, Sacred

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Negative

• Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Manage

• It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Atheist, Taste

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

• There is no bigot like the atheist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Bigots

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Not Interested

• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Atheist, Catholic

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

• I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Spiritual, Dog

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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