“The solution is too turn back to Jesus—not simply in our hearts, although it must begin there, but to do so on the steps of the county courthouse. When it comes down to it, there is fundamentally a basic choice. Either we will have a nativity set there with Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus, two cows, a goat, and a drummer boy, or we will have two (or more) homosexuals holding up their marriage license for the photographers.”

Mere Christendom, p. 40

“The therapeutic heresy has insisted on complete emotional autonomy and independence, and this has resulted in absolutely incoherent phrases like ‘my truth.’ But the fact that it is incoherent doesn’t keep you from hearing it all the time . . . In the government school system, teachers have to accommodate furries. How did this kind of nonsense get this far? Because of untethered empathy. Because we live in a generation that wants to disconnect from the way the world actually is.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 34

“Never forget that the devil at heart is a prohibitionist.”

Mere Christendom, p. 39

“But not knowing Him does not just result in Hell later. It also means that when we refuse to acknowledge Him here and now, the end result is that we start building little prototypes of Hell in order to test drive them. And that is why the public square rapidly becomes a haunt for owls and jackals.”

Mere Christendom, p. 38

“They haul you away to their reeducation centers more in pity than in anger.”

Mere Christendom, p. 37

“Sudden apostasies only seem sudden. How do you go bankrupt? First gradually, and then suddenly. That last bit is what everybody notices, but it was a long time coming.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 34