“Strangely bad reasoning: ‘God hasn’t stopped human beings from committing evil. Therefore I withdraw my faith from God and place it in human beings instead.’”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019.
“If the real girl is experiencing a real romance, she is experiencing something old, but not something stale.”
G.K. Chesterton “The Real Problem with Sentimental Art” reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6
“It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the spat in France over whether to stick a monstrous modern spire on a restored Notre Dame cathedral reflects a civilization that, cut off from tradition, has lost the ability to believe in anything.
In my latest National Post column I say safe injection sites are too timid an answer to the harm done by the war on drugs.
“Although God is said to test people at times, the reason does not seem to be that He needs to find out something about them. Rather they need to find out something about themselves.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" Feb. 25, 2019
“A strange strand of eternal pathos runs through dreams which comes from the very loom of life itself. Dreams are, if I may so express it, like life only more so. Dreams, like life, are full of nobility and joy utterly arbitrary and incalculable. We have gratitude, but never certainty.”
G.K. Chesterton, “The Meaning of Dreams,” reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)