When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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About Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Gilbert K. ChestertonWomen prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisd…
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, …