"Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way."
- J. Budziszewski
"In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it."
"To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God."
"Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving."
"Are we really moral monkeys? I don't think so. We only strike the nihilist pose selectively, to put to shame rules we no longer try to keep. When it suits us, we can be quite Puritanical: Right and wr..."
"Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin t..."
"Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how ser..."
"The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives."
"The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription."
"If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition "All meaning is relative" would be relative. Therefore the proposition "All meaning is relative" destroys itself. It is ..."