Peter Wehner

Cited in Faith is Not Blind (by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen) for the line Kyle pulled into his #Quotes highlights: “We are changed by what we love more than by what we think.” In Kyle’s reading of the book, the quote distills the alternative to “cosmic loneliness” — the argument that meaning is restored through love and commitment rather than abstract reasoning, against the backdrop of the twentieth-century collapse of the inherited “big box” of shared meaning.

Context: Peter Wehner is an American writer and political commentator, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum and contributing writer at The Atlantic, who has written widely on faith, ethics, and politics.

Where this appears

• Faith is Not Blind — source of the quoted line “we are changed by what we love more than by what we think,” tied to the book’s argument about meaning and love