Chesterton's Famous Sentence

Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society, has done some scholarly sleuthing on the source of Chesterton's famous sentence, 'When a Man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.'

One of Chesterton’s most famous quotations. Except he didn’t say it. Which is wonderful. Because Chesterton was so often accused of misquoting others. It is the supreme irony that he should be so famously misquoted.

Read all about it in On the Square, the blog for First Things, by following the link above.