In humility, I know I am not self-grounding; in humility, I receive my self from Another. Pride is the mistaken sense that I am the source of myself. This is an impossibility; why pride is ultimately indistinguishable from self-destruction.

Some words about my books: Praise for Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning (2016). "Philosophically sophisticated but readily accessible, this highly original study shows what it was that made Chesterton so excellent a reader both of texts and

In remembrance of William Blake, who died this day in 1827. One of my three most favorite artists. His vision is just beyond comprehension to me.

You have children so that you can have an example of what it is to be good and holy and Christlike, all while you must (paradoxically) teach them what it is and means to be good and holy and Christlike.

Literature is as fictional and as useful as human language, only with literature you can express an entire multitude of lifetimes in a single name: Raskolnikov, Karenina, Ishmael, Darcy, Quixote, Hamlet, Dante, Helen, etc.

We are experiencing one of the most momentous siftings in all of human history between those who can feel and those who are past feeling, with the majority trending towards those who feel absolutely nothing and are therefore dead as to all things that matter.

There is no such thing as acting: all “good” acting is good because it’s not fake.

Machado stands shoulder to shoulder with Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Dostoevsky, Borges, etc. Besides Borges, he is probably also the best reader of Shakespeare and one of the few inheritors to Shakespeare’s memory.

Jorge Luis Borges. Argentina, 1899 - 1986

All things denote there is a God

All things denote there is a God

'Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.' Novalis

Very simply called forgiveness.

It’s almost impossible to understand what we call “reality” without knowing the roots of things. So many words here make more sense when knowing the root word. Religion comes from Religare, meaning to bind back, or tie back to roots. A religious life is one rooted in reality.

“University teachers of literature can … deconstruct or neo-historicize what they like, but in the classroom they should be on their honour to make people know books well enough to understand what it is to love them. If they fail in that, either because they despise

This is why there is very little production of great art, we don’t live in beauty (internally and externally) and therefore can produce none.

The reality of Christ’s nature is not to be proved by argument. He must be beheld.

All things denote there is a God

A healthy society is built to protect and facilitate the godliness of motherhood.