"The Innocence of Father Brown" Quotes
A humble Catholic priest uses his keen intuition and understanding of human nature to solve a series of baffling mysteries in this classic collection of detective stories.
mystery | 223 pages | Published in 2021
Quotes
The madman's explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory.
It is the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.
