"Our work leaves eternal traces on God's creation." Peter J. Leithart "Divine Invitation" in Touchstone, November/December 2013.
"Our barbarians today do not scale our city walls with fire and sword. Today's weapons are the more impressive ammunitions of technology, advertising, broadcasting, economic and political lies, ambitions of scientists." Anthony Esolen "Poetry Above Compulsion" in Touchstone, March/April 2014.
"Purgatory is not beneath the earth. It is not above the earth. It is upon the earth, and it is a mountain, ascending toward the heavens." Anthony Esolen "Gaze Directed Heavenward" in Touchstone, March/April 2014.
"The air is cleaner in the citadel at the mountaintop, and they who still yearn for it can drag themselves out of the current of the times and climb that mountain to breathe freely as men, to see, and wonder." Anthony Esolen "Man Needs the Heavens" in Touchstone, March/April 2014.
"The questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there ain't no such thing as truth." Steve Faulkner "The Sunset Limited" in Touchstone, March/April 2014. "It is only within the embrace of tradition that innovation can regain its frisson, its thrill, its happy tension." Matthew Alderman "A Happy Tension" in Touchstone, March/April 2014.
"The world is not a place of neutrality. There are evil forces and good forces." Mitch Pacwa, SJ.
"The government has declared that it has the right to determine good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsehood." W.E. Knickerbocker "Government Replacing God" in Touchstone, March/April 2014.
"We often learn as much or more from watching the manner in which a practiced teacher responds to a question as we do from the content of what is said." Elizabeth Corey "Learning in Love" in First Things, April 2014. |
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May 2014 |