Richard L. Purtill > Quotes

“If Christianity is to be discounted as wishful thinking because it removes fear of meaninglessness and annihilation, then secularism should be open to the same charge, since it removes the hated ideas of an absolute superior and of real responsibility.”
― Richard L. Purtill, Reason to Believe: Why Faith Makes Sense

“So far as his beliefs about the primary world were concerned, Tolkien was a traditional, orthodox Catholic. So far as his subcreated world was concerned, he claimed the right to say, not how things are, but how, within the limits set by his fundamental beliefs, they could be.”
― Richard L. Purtill, J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion