95 Quotes by Philip Zaleski

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.