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"Gilbert Meilaender, a pillar of common sense and uncommon wisdom, finds in the many surfaces of everyday life the deepest truths of the human condition. His essays are wonderfully thoughtful, well argued, and gracefully written. One learns something important from him on almost every page about marriage, parenthood, friendship, politics, and man's relation to the divine. No one writing today about these matters does it better."
— Leon R. Kass, Addie Clark Harding Professor, The Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago.

"In the writing of Gilbert Meilaender moral wisdom is joined to stylistic grace, and perennial truths are renewed in engagement with contemporary concerns. There is nobody writing on ethics today whose work is more consistently rewarding."
— Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor, First Things

"Gilbert Meilaender is one of the truly gifted essayists writing on religious and moral subjects today. Whether he's explaining the meanings of marriage and parenthood, addressing the importance of having a place in one's life and knowing what to do with one's possessions, or is picking up anew the work of one of the masters of Christian theology and literature, Meilaender enters into his subject matter with grace and great insight. This gathering of essays, written over the space of twenty years, is really quite special."
— Vigen Guroian, author, Tending the Heart of Virtue and Inheriting Paradise

"...[Meileander] writes philosophy that is accessible and profound, besides as religiously informed, as G. K. Chesterton's great journalism of ideas early in this century."
— Booklist

"...the essays will intrigue both believers and non-believers by means of incisive arguments compellingly presented."
— Foreword

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