Like the Fellowship itself, Tolkien’s philosophy fights. It conquers what George Orwell called the smelly little orthodoxies of political correctness that have twisted and wounded our souls. In other...
Kennedy: You mean it’s not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life’s red ink...
It’s the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do...
In fact, I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of...
If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which...
If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.
His divinity existed without His humanity before the Incarnation, but ever since the Incarnation His humanity is joined forever to His divinity. His Ascension was not the undoing of His Incarnation.
Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit...
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardina...
Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff.
Dostoyevsky says, love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams (The Brothers Karamazov).
Corruptio optimi pessima. The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that’s like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. T...
Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And
As Buddha said, All that we are is determined by our thoughts.
All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.
Fiat!)
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
1) Physical gravity is a physical form of love. That little rock is falling because it’s in love with the big rock called the earth.