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“Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason.” (The Innocence of Father Brown Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“If you know what a man’s doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he’s doing, keep behind him.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“My brain and this world don’t fit each other; and there’s an end of it.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Only a man who knows nothing of motors talks of motoring without petrol; only a man who knows nothing of reason talks of reasoning without strong, undisputed first principles.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“People like frequent laughter,” answered Father Brown, “but I don’t think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Private lives are more important than public reputations.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic,”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“The quality of a miracle is mysterious, but its manner is simple.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“When he thought of a joke he made it, and was called brilliant. When he could not think of a joke he said that this was no time for trifling, and was called able.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else’s Bible?”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
