James H. Beauchamp

“Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Postmodern humanism may not be Promethean, but it most certainly is not Christian. In order to understand this new humanism, we need to examine its defensive posture. Two features are very much in evidence: a fear of authority and flight from truth. Both are integral to the strange way in which postmodern culture seeks to serve humanity by saving it from any and all power, by protecting us from the ambitions and demands that lead to change.”
― R. R. Reno, In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The facts must rule philosophy, not philosophy the facts.”
― Philip Schaff, History Of The Christian Church