Veronica

“Revelation, I argue, leads to the completion and fulfillment of political philosophy, not in any necessary or artificial way, but as an intelligible response to valid questions posed in the discipline itself. Revelation is a gift; it does not arise from human sources. It is not something that could be demanded or commanded. It is a rational gift. . . .Aquinas remains a key to the compatibility of reason and revelation. (At the Limits of Political Philosophy)”
― James V. Schall, SJ

“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.”
― Persius, The Satires of Persius