""Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special

to take your hand and hold your heart."

A. Nony Mouse

 

"A culture of freedom flourishes when ordinary people have a place to stand outside the expansive control of government and the marketplace.

Family and faith provide exactly that."

R.R. Reno

A letter of "Limited Government" in First Things, February 2014.

 

"To heal a wound, you must touch the wound. 

To heal a heart, you must touch the heart. 

And that is what no program or law or entitlements can do."

Anthony Esolen

"Blessed Assistance" in Touchstone, May/June 2013.

 

"One of the primary duties of the artist

is to remind us of the glory that was."

Calvin Staepert

On Haydn's Music in Touchstone, November/December 2014.

 

"In the realm of architecture and urbanism,

aspiration to legitimate authority entails an ambition

to unite beauty with goodness and truth.

The act of building has metaphysical consequences."

Philip Bess

"Building on Truth" in First Things, January 2015.

 

"In the developed world, more and more people of faith

now feel like strangers, out of place in the land of their birth."

Charles J. Chaput

"Strangers in a Strange Land" in First Things, January 2015.

 

"Pressure on believers is an un-intended gift to believers.

The tepid leave, the strong get stronger."

Charles J. Chaput

"Strangers in a Strange Land" in First Things, January 2015.

 

"Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. 

Only religion can moderate democracy, because it appeals

to an authority higher than democracy itself."

Charles J. Chaput

"Strangers in a Strange Land" in First Things, January 2015.

 

"I love you with all my butt.  I would say heart, but my butt is bigger."

A. Nony Mouse

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