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Quotation from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
“There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.”
Orthodoxy, Chapter IX, Authority and the Adventurer (closing sentence) (Project Gutenberg #130)
The last sentence of the book, after the claim that joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
Citation: "There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth." — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter IX, Authority and the Adventurer (closing sentence) (Project Gutenberg #130). (id chesterton-orthodoxy-q8)
Portrait: Gilbert Chesterton, Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain.
