[Premodern Christians] knew sacrifice was the only way to enlightenment. Whoever would save his life must first lose it, as the Bible says.
Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.
Churches...that are nothing more than a loosely bound assembly of individuals committed to finding their own 'truth,' are no longer the church in any meaningful sense, because there is no shared belief.
Contemporary churches have made Christianity too easy, presenting it as a way around suffering instead of a way through it. The old myths know better.
Enchantment always exists at the border between the real and the surreal. To be enchanted by a lover is to see her as both more than a mere person but also less than a goddess.
In the years to come, faithful Christians may have to choose between being a good American and being a good Christian.
Information is not the whole of reality; studying the map is not the same as crossing the territory.
It is wrong to take up the fight against one form of evil by embracing its mirror image.
It was the countercultural force of Christian sexuality that overturned the pagan world's dehumanizing practices.
The West has lost the golden thread that binds us to God, Creation, and each other. Unless we find it again, there is no hope of halting our dissolution.
There can be no peace between Christianity and the Sexual Revolution….
Ultimate love requires ultimate sacrifice. There is no way around it.
We will never recover a sense of resonance with the material world until and unless we surrender our modern urge to control everything.
You cannot have identity politics on the left...without calling up demons on the right.