G. K. Chesterton quotes on religion, faith, Christmas, morality, & truth


	G. K. Chesterton quotes on religion, faith, Christmas, morality, & truth

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6dcb781f-ff23-4ea7-ab7e-ecb9a979fd3c/2F982612-199D-4855-AE65-515F0C214D7E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm" href="http://chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">chesterton.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">"Theology is only thought applied to religion."	- <CITE>The New Jerusalem</CITE>
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</P></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">"The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity.  It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden." - <CITE>ILN 1-3-20</CITE>
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</P></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">"Any 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." - <CITE>The New Jerusalem, Ch. 5</CITE>
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