“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?”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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