Tom Willoughby

“Some people ask me what it’s like to be forgiven, to feel grace. It’s like walking on a long stretch of beach with nothing in sight but sky and waves and sand. With the sun piercing its brightness, the water tickling my toes, the roaring of the sea singing omniscience and power and yet, a deep peace, the waters changing from sandy brown to light green to a heavy blue, the waves cresting with the white peaks and then rushing to find my toes.”
― Elizabeth Musser, When I Close My Eyes

“In the first place, we have the powerful impulses of man’s sexual nature, which, especially in adult males, are sufficient to establish passing sexual relations with women and men, adults and children, strangers and close family members, beasts and physical objects. If permitted to engage in sexual contact according to the impulses of their untamed sexual nature, human males (and some females) would pour their energies into a variety of ephemeral sexual relations, with pregnancy, childbirth, and the raising of children as an incidental byproduct arising from some of them.”
― Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery

“What threatens to bring freedom to an end is that we have forgotten the end of freedom, in the other sense—its aim or purpose.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

“I believe God refines us over the fire at times, purifying us like gold, but if the account of Creation is true, then God’s original plan for all His children was beauty and peace and daily walks with Him—not cancer or gas chambers or kids being shot when they attend school. This purity, I think, often stings deep inside, but what freedom to know that God never forces anyone to love or serve Him. Even if it breaks His heart, He allows people to walk away.”
― Melanie Dobson, Hidden Among the Stars: A Time-Slip Mystery of Lost Treasure and Long-Buried Secrets