Daniel

“What James Hilton wants is a monastery without monks, the good of prayer without prayer, contemplation without a God to contemplate, and, as Flannery O’Connor will put it in her uncompromising way, the Church of Christ Without Christ. It cannot be. A blandly warm affection for the good things of the past is no match for the modern progressive’s ferocious drive to obliterate them or for the “evolutionary” social theories that prey upon man like monsters of the deep.”
― Anthony Esolen, Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World

“until what, for want of a more accurate term, we call our own.”
― Anthony Esolen, Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World

“We pray for the conversion of our enemies, but it is also legitimate that we pray for the destruction of those who violently oppose the kingdom of Christ. In this way it is appropriate for God’s people today to use the psalms of imprecation, not for personal revenge, but as part of our prayer for the establishment of the cause of Christ.”
― Sean McGowan, Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer

“seek to measure my works by its high standard and pass it on to my children with love. The iconoclast—the icon-smasher—is not generally a lover of mankind. Here let me add something that is hard to see when we are thinking only of selves and their survival. It is that the longing to go home, to a real culture, is also a longing not to be alone anymore.”
― Anthony Esolen, Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World