If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.


The collected works of G.K. Chesterton (ed. Ignatius Pr, 1987) - ISBN: 9780898701470

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then...

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then...

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then...

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then...