QUOTATION: Sexual Morality

All questions of sexual morality come down to one basic question: Is this act an authentic sign of God’s free, total faithful, fruitful love or is it not? Is it is not, then it is a counterfeit to the love we really desire. We must be courageous enough not to settle for counterfeit loves.

--Christopher West,  An Introduction to the Theology of the Body

QUOTATION: Sexual Freedom

Authentic sexual freedom is not freedom to indulge your compulsions but rather freedom from the compulsion to indulge.

--Christopher West

QUOTATION: The Purpose of Contraception

Contraception was not invented to prevent pregnancy. We already had a 100% reliable way of doing that - abstinence. In the final analysis, contraception serves one purpose: to spare us the difficulty we experience when confronted with the choice of abstinence.

--Christopher West

QUOTATION: Sin

In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.


-- Christopher West