Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I don't think you need religion.

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

One can only blaspheme if one believes.