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Aliens Quote by Rod Dreher

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“I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.”

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“To love requires loving others and letting others love you.”

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“The overweight person diets not to punish him- or herself for being heavy but to become healthier. The athlete works out not because he…

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“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.”

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“For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian…

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If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend…

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“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. He…

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“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on ourselves a…

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“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are missing the…

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Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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