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Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.

To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.

Experience assists wisdom because the universe has been designed to make it so.

He is what He is and there was never a time when he wasn't.

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

morality would be undermined without a belief in divine judgment, but

In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it.

Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.

Jesus, I am sorry.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.

Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit.

We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light.

I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard.

No daycare center can duplicate a mother.

As candle lights candle, [the spouses's] desire for each other kindles a desire for the Love of which their love is but a reflection.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

Those who do not accept conscience as a teacher must face it as an accuser.

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

Experience does not interpret itself.

Only good was created. Every evil thing is a good thing ruined. There are no other ways to get an evil thing.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Of course, for whatever is amiss in these pages (and there will be much), the blame is mine. But permit me to be grateful if anything in them is true.

The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.

Natural function and personal meaning are not alien to each other, they are connected. In

An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

Plurality without Design is merely chaos.