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“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.”
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
“The Christian is free because he lives for the one thing necessary.”
― The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism
― The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism
“Grant Gilmore: “In Heaven there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb….In Hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.”
― Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
― Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
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