It takes decades of living to finally come to the end of yourself. When you do, it is possible to see the grandeur of eternity which...

Variations on such themes are as plentiful as they are preposterous. Wilhelm Reich, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, Timothy...

Do you know that we are tremendously powerful already? ... Listen. I’ve reckoned them all up: a teacher who laughs with children at their...

He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined. Quoted in The...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is, a cultural life will exist outside...

Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. -...

“Your an atheist because your a snob. A snob of the snobs. You’ve lost the distinction between good and evil because you’ve lost touch...

“It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half.”...

"All men would be tyrants if they could." - Abigail Adams Quoted in Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life and Impact of G.K. Chesterton by...

Socialism mostly spreads by sentimentalism. Based on an insight by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Possessed

The progressive has eliminated the idea of Original Sin, which afflicted all mankind, and has reduced evil to political error. ...

We as Christians are to live by a higher law and to proclaim its importance even while many wish to live by a lower law, or even no law...

“Christian maturity is not a matter of doing more for God; it is God doing more in and through us. Immaturity is noisy with...

Dostoyevsky watched as many Russians claimed to be in favor of helping the poor and the oppressed. He knew their behavior was virtue...

Human institutions succeed or fail in large part because of the good traditions or the bad traditions that animate them… good traditions,...

“Truly tolerant people are hard to offend. They do not seek occasion to bring others into ill repute. They do not put the worst...

Thomas à Kempis said that no matter where we are, what we are doing or what the latest distraction is, we must always remain free inside...

Should “listlessness for the preservation of natural and unalienable rights” ever infect Americans, George Washington had warned, then...

The Believer can use the spiritual disciplines to prepare himself for moments of crisis. Whether it is a trial afflicting ourselves or...

“Walking on the water is easy to impulsive pluck, but walking on dry land as a disciple of Jesus Christ is a different thing. Peter...