"As G.K. Chesterton said, what makes religions different is not what their garb and customs are like, but what they hold to be true." James V. Schall S.J. in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2016)
"Without religious convictions, we would be so many Cains…" Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence
"There are some people who say that they want Socialism, but do not want bureaucracy. Such persons I leave in simple despair. How any calculating creature can think that we can extend the number of Government offices without extending the number of Government officials and the prevalence of the official mind, I cannot even conjecture. Some people look forward to a splendid transformation of the general human soul. That is a good argument for accepting Socialism – and, when one comes to think of it, an even better reason for doing without it." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News January 2, 1909, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)
"Doubt comes at the window, when inquiry is denied at the door." Benjamin Jowett
"Man must bow down to something." Fyodor Dostoevsky, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor
"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.
"it’s so silly for people to speculate about things like whether He could have made a different moral order than he did. It’s like a child asking, 'If two and two made cheese, then what would monkeys equal?'" J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
"The certainty of a God giving a meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice, and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden. The absurd merely confers an equivalence on the consequences of those actions." Albert Camus "The Absurd Man" in The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays