22 quotes
To be able to see God and hear God requires faith. And faith requires humility, and commitment. You cannot know what the sea feels and tastes like if you will never leave the beach.
Is there anything that the new woke progressivism touches that it doesn’t destroy?
If you believe a society built on raw force is going to be just, you are a fool.
For all its problems, I can’t see any governing system available to us in our pluralistic, multiracial democracy than classical liberalism.
They begin by destroying statues. They will end by destroying people.
The Possessed (2020)
I fear that there will be blood. I hope and pray that there won’t be, and I will be looking for any way to avoid it.
You cannot reform people who do not recognize that there is anything that needs reforming.
White People & The Persistence Of Culture (2014)
The cruelty, the injustice, the implacability, and at times the sheer stupidity of the imperial Russian government and social order in no way justifies all that followed—but it does explain why the revolutionary Russian generation was so eager to place its hope in communism.
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)
They start with pulling down and abusing statues; they will end by doing this to people.
Ancien Regime Change (2020)
Don’t get me wrong: I believe that people who circumcise for religious reasons should have the right to do so.
Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Gentile Region (2021)
Ross Douthat’s line can’t be said often enough: if you don’t like the Religious Right, just wait till you see the Post-Religious Right.
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Got That Way (2018)
[S]omeone driving a Geo Metro in this day and age isn't rich.
Red Guards Then, Black Guards Now (2020)
Bolsheviks actually had a vision of what they wanted to see replace the order they destroyed. Other than “defund the police,” the Woke do not.
Ancien Regime Change (2020)
There really is a difference between hard totalitarianism and soft totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a mindset before it is anything else. Totalitarianism is the idea that there is no area of life that is free from politics — and that also means cultural politics.
Everybody is afraid. The Gospel speaks to this fear! It offers a way out, and a way forward!
What Can the Church Say Today? (2020)
Bizarrely, as blacks and other minorities are growing in power, wealth, and influence, the Left acts as if America is little better than apartheid South Africa.
To the Judean Hills (2021)
I utterly despise this shallow, mendacious, destructive habit of mind we have of demonizing people in the past who don’t live up to our supposedly perfect standards.
Heroes, Villains, And America's Fate (2020)
Don’t misunderstand: racism is a malignancy, and so is police brutality; decent people should stand up against them. But resisting these evils are going to occasion the embrace of other evils, masquerading as virtues and imperatives.
Culture War Back To The Future (2020)
Remember this: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"? That’s an ideal worth defending. But do liberals even believe it anymore?
In high school, I was physically bullied by 17 y.o. boys, in a sexually humiliating way (but not sex). It affected the direction of my life. They never apologized. Still, I wouldn’t hold that against them if they were nominated for the Court. They were boys.