August 04, 2005

Did Chesterton Really Say This?

Dennis L asks:

When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.

What is the correct quote and where (which GKC work) does it come from?

The Quotemeister responds. You'll be surprised, I think.

[via Touchstone's Mere Comments]

Posted by Clifton at August 4, 2005 02:40 PM | TrackBack
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Gonna sound stupid here...

Who is this Chesterton guy everyone is so enamoured of?

Posted by: Tripp at August 4, 2005 03:17 PM

Only one of the most brilliant and original Christian thinkers of the twentieth century. :-P

http://www.chesterton.org/discover/who.html

Posted by: David Richards at August 4, 2005 04:28 PM

Gilbert Keith was also a journalist and brilliant author. (Just my two cents...keep the change. lol)

Carl

Posted by: Carl at August 4, 2005 09:47 PM

Glory and amen! THAT's my beef with so many of my "spiritual", "post-modern" friends - not that they HAVE spirituality, nor that they ARE postmodern (hooray Derrida!), but that they are cobbling together scraps of other people's philosophies into poor facsimiles of a faith. I find these efforts laudable and pitiful at the same time.

Interestingly, this is the criticism I hear most often of Wicca - that it is no kind of "restoration" or recapturing but a neo-thing (and held a foolish thing by these critics) unto itself. An epidemic, perhaps.

Posted by: kate at August 5, 2005 10:47 AM