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"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?"

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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This quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton is a suggestion to be grateful for the true blessings we have actually been provided. It is a tip to be glad for the gifts of life, health, and strength that we have actually been provided. Chesterton is recommending that we must be grateful to God for the gift of life and the capability to walk and move freely. He is reminding us that we ought to be glad for the physical presents we have actually been offered, such as our legs, and not take them for given. He is likewise suggesting that we must be grateful for the spiritual gifts we have been offered, such as faith, hope, and love. Chesterton is reminding us to be grateful for all the blessings we have actually been given, both physical and spiritual, and to not take them for given.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton This quote is written / told by Gilbert K. Chesterton between May 29, 1874 and June 14, 1936. He was a famous Writer from England. The author also have 111 other quotes.

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