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Though often accused of anti Semitism, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an eminent English writer of the 20th century who not only showed his expertese with words and phrases but had also carved out a niche for himself in the arena of poetry, journalism, biography, Catholic Christian Theology and apologetics.
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Often coupled with essayist Hilaire Belloc, their duo was branderd as Chesterbelloc by Shaw.Popularly known as the Price of Paradox, his distinct style of writing and flow of thoughts marks him out from the other authors of his genre.His notion of the need for a separate Jewish land incurred him the displeasure of many but interestingly,inspite of his radical opinions and views he remains the most revered author to conservatives and liiberals alike thogh none of his theololgical or polical views matched with theirs.
Though he had 80 books, nearly a hundred poems, 200 short stories and 4000 esseys to his credit, he remains most famous for his priest detective Father Brown stories with “The man who was Thursday” featuring as the best written novel.As if that wasn’t enough he was a well known columnist for the Daily News, Illustrated London News, and of course for his own paper, G.K’s Weekly Besides contributing a whole lot of articles for Encyclopedia Britanicca,his best written poetries are The Lepanto,The Rolling Road and The Secret People which though not very famous are often the most quoted.So if you want to lend a literary touch to your Christmas Greeting Cards,a few of the G.K Chesterton Christmas Quotes could get you interested.
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?
"The 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." - Christendom in Dublin, Ch.3
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