All GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Quotes about “Atheism”

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

“Atheism is too theological.”
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”
“The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.”
“Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?”
“The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.”
“Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.”
“The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.”
“There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.”
“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
“Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.”

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