The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"It is common and customary to pose the question,
'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?'
as though one were starting a deep and inscrutable problem. 
It is neither deep, however, nor inscrutable.
God created chickens first, not eggs.
God made plants first, not seeds.
God made things in their maturity,
in the state in which they manifest, not conceal,
the mystery of the Kingdom."
Patrick Henry Reardon
Touchstone, July/August 2003

"No commandment says our neighbors must love us.
It says we must love our neighbors."
Mother Angelica
on EWTN, first aired in 1992

"We must, to be sure, love our enemies,
and love them with a love that is generous and ungrudging.
But we must not pretend that we have no enemies.
That just isn't true."
Robert P. George
Touchstone, July/August 2003

"We become stronger
as other countries become more free."
Tony Snow
Fox News Sunday, 2003

"The networks aren't listening because they're arrogant people.
It would challenge their professional lives."
BERNARD GOLDBERG
Author of BIAS, 2001

"We cannot afford to speak to each other
with a false concern for personal feelings
or what the secular world considers politically correct.
When convictions collide, we may both be wrong,
but we cannot both be right."
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Touchstone, July/August 2003

"Christianity is never directed toward that
which we can hold in common and celebrate with one another
by the avoidance of those things
that really matter."
Richard John Neuhaus
Touchstone, July/August 2003

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