Blase J. Cupich Quotes

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

If you really think abortion is murder, how can you carve out exceptions?

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people's suffering for his principles.

NIH has become the Beirut of abortion and fetal tissue research.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

I don't believe a Christian has to sell his soul to the devil to vote for Donald Trump.

I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.