Nature Quote by Charles J. Chaput

“The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus”

— Charles J. Chaput

“This post-Christian confusion—MacIntyre calls it “emotivism”—now shapes American public life. In such an environment, the purpose of moral discourse, he writes, “[becomes] the attempt…

— Charles J. Chaput

“We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they…

— Charles J. Chaput

“We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“in a chapter on “repairing God’s house,” they’ll find no new ideas for projects, programs, studies, procedures for nominating bishops, committees, structures, offices, synods,…

— Charles J. Chaput

“Parents often complain that America’s education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of…

— Charles J. Chaput

“One of Christianity’s key contributions to Western civilization was to give men and women a sense of freedom from the whims of fate, a…

— Charles J. Chaput

“One of the ways in which a good Christian marriage mirrors the divine is that, just as God’s love overflowed into creation, so the…

— Charles J. Chaput

“It also attracts thousands of others to the faith. Bland secular platitudes, consumer junk, and cheap nihilism feed nobody’s soul. These things strangle the…

— Charles J. Chaput

“When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is…

— Charles J. Chaput