Quote of the Day (G. K. Chesterton, on the New Year and the New Man)

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”—G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Calendar: A Quotation From the Works of G. K. Chesterton for Every Day in the Year (1921)