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“The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.”
― Jurgen Moltmann

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“These are the days that must happen to you.”
― Walt Whitman

“the best sources in the Western tradition have argued that morality is much more than, indeed qualitatively different from, the sum of the values that an essentially autonomous self chooses for itself. Classical, Jewish, and Christian sources, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, or Augustine, John Chrysostom, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin, insist that morality is neither plural nor subjective.”
― Vigen Guroian, Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Childs Moral Imagination

“The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.”
― Karl Rahner

“Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.”
― Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”
― Stanley Hauerwas

“The courageous have fears that cowards never know.”
― Stanley Hauerwas

“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and and self-expression.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

“Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“The church does not exist to provide an ethos for democracy or any other form of social organization, but stands as a political alternative to every nation, witnessing to the kind of social life possible for those that have been formed by the story of Christ.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, A Community Of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic

“The church… stands as a political alternative to every nation, witnessing to the kind of social life possible for those that have been formed by the story of Christ.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, A Community Of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic

“The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.”
― John Henry Newman

“He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.”
― John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine