“Justice requires acute perception of what is really due to the other person; in” — 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 agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share
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