Coincidence Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Coincidences are spiritual puns.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coincidence Luck Puns Religion Spiritual
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A priest told me once at a spiritual retreat, 'Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.' I think about that a lot. — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of… — Delia Parr Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We cannot see how our lives will unfold. What is destiny and What is accident? And how can one ever be certain?” — Cathy Ostlere Copy Share Image
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people suggested that I should try something else. It was a lot of things, but nothing really stood out for me. Nothing felt… — Claudia Kim Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows Tuchel knows that he is a man who leaves nothing to coincidence. — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
