Henzin

“In a world where truth is “what works for you,” the fool who proposes that truth is objective will seem as laughable as Cyrano with his rubber nose. In an age where beauty is a skeletal slattern, a pornographic picture, or a butch biker with tattoos, the one who believes in the frail beauty of Belle or Beatrice or the Blessed Virgin is an amusing and archaic knight. In a world where the bottom line is the profit margin, one who seeks the top line of honesty and honor will seem like a ridiculous Don Quixote.”
― Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty

“Maybe dealing rationally with the physical world is the more primitive part of us, while the capacity to interact abstractly with an unseen realm is the highest point of our human development.”
― Dwight Longenecker, Catholicism Pure and Simple

“If we are not careful, this false culture can dull our senses and lull us into a kind of trance, and we begin to exist in a nether world of attractive lies and half-truths.”
― Dwight Longenecker, Listen My Son: St. Benedict for Fathers

“the desire to sacrifice oneself for love is so otherworldly that it must have come from another world. It is so alien to the tooth and claw of natural selection that it must be the result of a supernatural selection.”
― Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty