Charles Chaput Quotes

#1. Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

Charles J. Chaput

#2. It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

Rick Perry

#3. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values.

Charles J. Chaput

#4. Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

Charles J. Chaput

#5. Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

Paul Vitz

#6. I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

Charles J. Chaput

#7. We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.

Charles J. Chaput

#8. If they don't believe what the Church teaches, they're not really Catholic

Charles Chaput

#9. Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But

Charles J. Chaput

#10. A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

Daniel Pennac

#11. Your worth is not determined by your appearance, and your worth is not determined by what others think of you. I know those are easy words to say, and hard to feel. I am still working on this myself. But I am here working on it alongside you.

Kristin Kreuk

#12. Magic is the motivation to see opportunities for a happier potential. The motivation itself creates the potential.

Shradhdha. S

#13. I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Nick Woodman