George Weigel Quotes

#1. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

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

George Weigel

#3. In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

Michael Hirst

#5. Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

George Weigel

#6. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

Ray Bradbury

#7. I was as hurt by this as if I were engaged in some honest occupation. There is nothing surprising about this. Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

Charles Neider

#8. The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

George Weigel

#9. A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed ... It feels an impulsion ... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Richard Bach

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

George Weigel

#11. Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

Angela Merici

#12. Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

Tom Hodgkinson

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

George Weigel

#14. Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

J.R. Moehringer

#15. 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.

George Weigel

#16. I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.

Elon Musk

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

George Weigel

#18. I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

Minka Kelly

#19. Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

George Weigel

#20. It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

Steve Martin

#21. If you are not on the edge, you are taking up too much room. - Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Scott Jurek

#22. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

George Weigel

#23. Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

John W. Gardner

#24. In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality ... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

George Weigel

#25. 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 ...

George Weigel

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

George Weigel