- “And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”
by William Wilberforce - “A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.”
by Dallas Willard - “Legalism: There ought to be a law against it.”
by Francis Beckwith - “What C.S. Lewis called joy in this life is an image of heaven. Joy is the experience of wonder and love and longing for something that can’t be defined, but which we can experience right now and find wonderfully fulfilling. Yet, by definition, it is a longing for more.”
by Peter Kreeft - “The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb. Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by the clever excuses which apologetics has come up with to justify the dark sides which, sadly, are so frequent in the Church’s human history. If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? No. Christians must not be too easily satisfied. They must make their Church into a place where beauty–and hence truth–is at home. Without this the world will become the first circle of Hell.”
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) with Vittorio Messori The Ratzinger Report - “The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions! His rule: let that come into the world, let it even reign supreme–only not through me. But it is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! For in the struggle with lies art has always triumphed and shall always triumph! Visibly, irrefutably for all! Lies can prevail against much in this world, but never against art.”
by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
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