Calvin Ohsey

“Since then Sunni Islam has adopted the official position that no new interpretations of the law can be entertained, and that what seemed right in twelfth-century Cairo or Baghdad must seem right today.”
― Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

“A world where people openly and honestly disagree is diverse. A world that mandates unity through conformity to relativism—and accuses people of bigotry for disagreeing with others—is far from diverse.”
― Chris Stefanick, Absolute Relativism - The New Dictatorship and What to do About It

“Syntheses between East and West based simply on a similarity of “spiritualities” or “mystical experiences” could not be achieved even then—how much less so today! So we must judge any program as inadequate that tries simply to let India and Europe encounter each other at the halfway-station of Byzantine hesychasm, in the practice of the Jesus prayer and of certain bodily positions and breathing exercises—all ways in which Eastern Christianity reorientalized itself after the period of the great synthesis.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor

“In the words of Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St. Edith Stein—a Catholic Carmelite nun who died in Auschwitz because of her Catholic faith and her Jewish descent—“Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie.”
― Chris Stefanick, Absolute Relativism - The New Dictatorship and What to do About It