A high regard for [tolerance] is a by-product of modern ideas of freedom, according to which the public and shared pursuit of the meaning of the Good is abandoned, so that each individual can define the Good however he or she wishes.
March 2nd, 2012
February 28th, 2012
Unlike love, unlike faith and hope, unlike the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, tolerance is a virtue with limits. There can never be too much love or justice or hope, but everyone—even the most tolerant among us—agrees that some things shouldn’t be tolerated.
February 26th, 2012
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love.
February 21st, 2012
It is not enough for the Church to advance certain sound ideas about God—about sin and forgiveness—while imitating the confusion of its neighbors on everything else.
Ken Myers, qtd. by Rod Dreher in “What is Education For?”
[Young Christians] admirably want to be more like Jesus, but they’re not really sure they want to be more like Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, or Jonathan Edwards.
Ken Myers, qtd. by Rod Dreher in “What is Education For?”
