J. Budziszewski

Quotes

• “If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition "All meaning is relative" would be relat...”
• “What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes...”
• “Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and...”
• “In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them ...”
• “If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two...”
• “That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it ...”
• “How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, ...”
• “Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's ...”
• “Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appe...”
• “Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppi...”
• “It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined....”
• “The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like math...”
• “Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not th...”
• “Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the b...”
• “The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring t...”
• “A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer ...”
• “In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our ...”
• “Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recogniz...”
• “To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things com...”
• “When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his...”
• “Jesus, I am sorry.”