Sublime

that a man who has been seized and transformed by the “more excellent way” can bend the curve of history so that freedom’s cause is advanced.

the mission of converting the world while putting the great human aspiration to freedom on a firmer spiritual and moral foundation.

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

Plus ratio quam vis: “Reason rather than force.”

Catholic faith embraces and illuminates all of life, and everything the believer does

his soul had been formed by a different experience, an experience of the Church as the bearer of the most potent vision of human possibility on offer.

To understand Pope John Paul II “from inside” is to understand that, for him, hope for the human prospect is rooted in faith.

Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom.