“Her choice [that of the mother/title character in the novel Sophie's Choice] is plainly evil; for the sake of a better result, she has united herself with the sin of the murderer. And in the end the other child dies too. But how could she choose otherwise, if she had no faith in God?”
J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
“people often ask me, well don’t you have faith in anything? And I always have the same answer, I do have one unshakable [faith], and that is I have an unshakable [faith] in the unreliability of man. I know that no matter what we do, some damn fool will make a mess of it.”
Garrett Hardin, quoted in Julian Simon Hoodwinking the Nation
“The greatest of all Chesterton’s gifts was his charity, and he carried it to a very high point; for he suffered fools gladly."
Fulton J. Sheed in “G.K. Chesterton,” in Sidelights on the Catholic Revival, quoted by James V. Schall in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2003)
“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”
G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
“’Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 31, 1921 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)
In a speech to the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June (sorry, I’m a bit behind in my video editing) I argue that the calamities of the 20th century derived, fundamentally, from a rejection of the notion of truth.
In my latest Mercatornet piece I argue that Stephen Hawking’s arguments in his last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, are as unconvincing as they are dreary.
“Four park benches sit on the lawn at Wesley United Church at Main and Graham, offering weary passersby a place to rest. They aren’t chained or locked. One of the slats in the benches bears the inscription: ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ But it’s probably the added inscription on the next slat that is most effective. ‘God is watching.’”
Dave Brown Best of Brown