To hurry through one’s leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
G.K. ChestertonThis is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
G.K. ChestertonAny one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.
G.K. ChestertonThere’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.
G.K. ChestertonThe whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
G.K. ChestertonIt is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
G.K. ChestertonTo the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
G.K. ChestertonTruth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
G.K. ChestertonThe more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
G.K. ChestertonThe great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.
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