To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“...a marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and the wife,… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Courage requires not mere fearlessness but a right estimate of what things are worth fighting for; in” — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we cannot be… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
