R. R. Reno Quotes

#1. Progressivism is a luxury of the one percent.

R. R. Reno

#2. Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

R. R. Reno

#3. To be free to achieve our most cherished goals we need authorities we can trust, assent to, and make our own.

R. R. Reno

#4. We resist the gospel because we fear all powers that effect change in us, even as we live in a society that constantly champions progress and development.

R. R. Reno

#5. Denying themselves sweets and fatty foods, they cultivate a taste for fine wines and locally produced cheese. This is how we live: asceticism by day and hedonism by night, giving each god its due in its season. One

R. R. Reno

#6. Yale University is famous for its Sex Week. It does not have a Dignity of the Worker Week or even a Save the Planet Week. This self-involved focus speaks volumes about the preoccupations of today's ruling class.

R. R. Reno

#7. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).

R. R. Reno

#8. We [postmodernists] can safely navigate the danger of life, detached from the true and everlasting dangers of obedience and commitment, for nothing has the right to make a claim on our souls.

R. R. Reno

#9. We want a culture of the people, by the people, and for the people, not defined by white European traditions, male preferences, or any other form of group identity.

R. R. Reno