6 Quotes by Chris Stefanick

In the words of Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St. Edith Stein – a Catholic Carmelite nun who died in Auschwitz because of her Catholic faith and her Jewish descent – “Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie.

Closed-minded” is merely a negative way of saying convinced. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”49 It’s a good thing to close your mind once you find something worth closing it on.

A world where people openly and honestly disagree is diverse. A world that mandates unity through conformity to relativism – and accuses people of bigotry for disagreeing with others – is far from diverse.

How do you explain why religious people are always trying to legislate their morality? Isn’t that intolerant? Newsflash: Every law is the legislation of morality!

When a society acknowledges that human rights are based on objective principles – like the dignity of the person and natural law – those rights are secure. But a society that does not recognize moral assertions as objective facts puts those rights on shaky ground. Rights come to be regarded as favors granted by the state or by a majority vote.

Disagreeing and speaking out is not intolerant. Fining those you disagree with, threatening to force them to act against their conscience, and pushing all signs or expressions of their beliefs out of the public square is intolerant.