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It is easy to see how superstition, with its false glosses, mocks God, while it tries to please him.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 54
- Religion
The ceremony of lifting up our hands in prayer is designed to remind us that we are far removed from God, unless our thoughts rise upward.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 3, Chapter 20, Section 5
- Prayer
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
John Calvin1509–1564Commentary on the Book of Genesis. Chapter I.
- Science
The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.
ECEmile CammaertsOften credited to G. K. Chesterton
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
Albert Camus1913–1960
Reason is a particle of the Creator’s divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.
Giacomo Casanova1725–1798Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
- Thinking
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What I Saw In America
- America
- Freedom
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)
- Atheism
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Science
If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead
- Atheism
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Often credited to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Atheism
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936“The Book of Job: An introduction”, in Putnam’s Monthly (June 1907) p. 356, col. 1
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Christendom in Dublin (1932), Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy
- Government
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The New Jerusalem
- Theology