Backbone Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton — Download Open image

“the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.”

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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