Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLiterature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton