Thought For The Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I have all sorts of quotes and memes around my classroom, and one of them on the door is “Keep Calm and Don’t Immanentize the Eschaton” – it provides a wonderful teaching opportunity…once the words get explained.
“Keep Calm and Don’t Immanentize the Eschaton”
Eric Voegelin enters the chat. 😉 Great choice. 👍
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”