The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
This answer may not be a winner,
but we had an egg for breakfast
and the chicken for dinner."
Overheard in the editor's office.
July, 2005.

"You have to cook the truth in charity
until it tastes good."
Francis de Sales
Overheard in the editor's office.

"Abstraction will always lead us away
from what is truly real."
Timothy George
"The Pattern of Christian Truth"
in First Things, June/July 2005

"My tire was thumping, I thought it was flat.
When I looked at the tire, I noticed your cat.
Sorry."
Overheard in the editor's office.
July, 2005

"All normal human beings
spontaneously judge that certain actions are wrong.
They know they ought to be honest, truthful,
temperate, just,
and loving toward others."
Avery Cardinal Dulles
"Mere Apologetics"
in First Things, June/July 2005

"Good conscience means a good grasp
and a good application
of moral truth,
for it is the truth that remains primary."
George Cardinal Pell
"The Inconvenient Conscience"
in First Things, May 2005

"It is always from the truth
that the dignity of conscience derives."
Pope John Paul the Great
Quoted in First Things, May 2005

"What people allow into their lives
will invariably 'teach' them."
Paul Fretz
Christianity Today, July 2005

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