Charles J. Chaput Quotes
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
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If new orthodoxies of unbelief attack inherited faith, if scientism and a cult of technology lower our eyes to the gadgets in our hands, the effect ripples across a culture’s soul.
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The Church is harmed by an overly sentimental or anti-intellectual spirit in her work. In an “emotivist” age, the last thing we need is a flight from clear teaching.
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The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.
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The Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper summed it up when he said that “the abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word.
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We’re on a journey to a heavenly home, and we need all the help we can get. Societies
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Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty - these are Christian values.
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The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus
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Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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M. Scott Peck’s classic book People of the Lie.
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Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.