Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

They say miracles are past.

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

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.