Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Destiny

• Coincidences are spiritual puns.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Destiny

• The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Destiny, Men

• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

• In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Destiny, Men, Doctrine

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p. 34, 1917.

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