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“A miracle is startling; but it is simple. It is simple because it is a miracle.” (The Complete Father Brown Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“A scientific government, with a really ethical responsibility to posterity, would be always looking for the line of promise and progress;”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“An egoist,” said Father Brown. “She was the sort of person who had looked in the mirror before looking out of the window, and it is the worst calamity of mortal life.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“And though the old man’s scarlet face and silver beard had blazed like a bonfire in each room or passage in turn, it did not leave any warmth behind it.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“But is it so hard for you people to believe that spiritual powers are really more powerful than material ones.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“Dog doesn’t eat dog, and doctors don’t bite doctors, not even when they are mad doctors. I shouldn’t care to cast any reflection on my eminent predecessor in Potter’s Pond, if I could avoid it;”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“Father Brown tossed the paper on the floor and sat bolt upright in his chair. ‘You mustn’t let that sort of stuff stupefy you,’ he said sharply. ‘These devils always try to make us helpless by making us hopeless.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“For we human beings are used to inappropriate things; we are accustomed to the clatter of the incongruous; it is a tune to which we can go to sleep. If one appropriate thing happens, it wakes us up like the pang of a perfect chord.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“It might be questioned whether hammering is more of a strain on the attention because it may go on for ever, or because it may stop at any minute.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he’s realised exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about ‘criminals,’ as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he’s got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he’s squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“One could fancy that the voices from the under world of unfathomable foliage were cries of the lost and wandering pagan gods: gods who had gone roaming in that irrational forest, and who will never find their way back to heaven.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“People will tell you that theories don’t matter and that logic and philosophy aren’t practical. Don’t you believe them. Reason is from God, and when things are unreasonable there is something the matter.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“The modern mind always mixes up two different ideas: mystery in the sense of what is marvellous, and mystery in the sense of what is complicated. That is half its difficulty about miracles.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“The priest looked puzzled also, as if at his own thoughts; he sat with knotted brow and then said abruptly: ‘You see, it’s so easy to be misunderstood. All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“The travellers looked at it with that paradoxical feeling we have when something reminds us of something, and yet we are certain it is something very different.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” he said; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One is to have a horror of him because he is so far off; and the other to have it because he is so near. And no virtue and vice are so much divided as those two virtues.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“There’s another thing you’ve got to remember. You talk about these highbrows having a higher art and a more philosophical drama. But remember what a lot of the philosophy is! Remember what sort of conduct those highbrows often present to the highest! All about the Will to Power and the Right to Live and the Right to Experience — damned nonsense and more than damned nonsense — nonsense that can damn.” Father”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
“You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown
