Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Atheist

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

"Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheist, Believe, Doctors

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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 worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheist, Atheism, Negative

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Atheist, Taste

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheist, Bigots

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheist, Atheism, Argument