Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Miracles

• 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

• The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Miracle, Incredibles, Happens

  "The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

• What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Childhood, Miracle, World

  "Autobiography". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

• The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Miracle, Doctrine, Accepting

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

• The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Miracle, Outrageous

• An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Moving, Men

• The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Believe, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Intelligent, Miracle

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