Ben Helgemo

“From Socrates through Aquinas, reason meant primarily the understanding of the nature of reality, the knowledge of the essences of things.”
― Peter Kreeft, Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

“Here is what they got out of their hoax. Their friends and families scorned them. Their social standing, possessions, and political privileges were stolen from them by both Jews and Romans. They were persecuted, imprisoned, whipped, tortured, exiled, crucified, eaten by lions, and cut to pieces by gladiators. So some silly Jews invented the whole elaborate, incredible lie of Christianity for absolutely no reason, and millions of Gentiles believed it, devoted their lives to it, and died for it—for no reason. It was only a fantastic practical joke, a hoax.”
― Peter Kreeft, Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

“If evolution simply means that a positive thing called an ape turned very slowly into a positive thing called a man, then it is stingless for the most orthodox; for a personal God might just as well do things slowly as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“the understanding is stimulated by the quest of ultimate truth; the will is stirred by basically known truth to choose what is truly good.”
― Paul J. Glenn, An Introduction to Philosophy