Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Coincidence

• 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

• ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, People, Missing

• Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Definitions, Coincidence

• Coincidences are spiritual puns.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Destiny

• There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Wicked

• All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Style, Coincidence

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