Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I saw Jesus walk into my bedroom.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

What you don't know would make a great book.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving.

At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.