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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his… Continue Reading →
“Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God,” —Romans 12.
“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling,… Continue Reading →
Book Recommendations Autobiography The Confessions by St. Augustine (Frank Sheed translation) A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken Novels The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis Plays A Man for All Seasons by Robert… Continue Reading →
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived… Continue Reading →
“According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other… Continue Reading →
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