The responsibility of conservative public intellectuals — like Scruton, like Charles Murray, like the late Bill Buckley — is to go beyond the mere love of truth for its own sake and to fight to defend how that truth is maintained and reproduced in society. (firstthings.com)
He doubted the existence of God out of a passionate love of the truth, not out of a pathological need to avoid commitment. (religion-online.org)
Love for the Church and love of the truth compel us to resist such narratives. (firstthings.com)