15 Quotes by George Weigel

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

Be the Church – that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God’s passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes...

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible – and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.