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"If people are scandalized by the truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the truth" - Pope St. Gregory the Great " Otherwise, since to be unwilling to disquiet evildoers is none other than to encourage them, and since he who fail s to oppose a manifest crime is not without a touch of secret complicity ." - Pope Innocent III & Fourth Lateran Council “God plus one is an army”. - St. Theresa of Avila "The Law of Christ, which finds its fulfillment in charity, binds us to desire the w elfare of people's soul more than that of the body" - St. Francis of Assisi "Nobody ought to flatter himself with undue applause over anything a sinner can do. A sinner can fast, pray, weep, mortify his flesh. But this he cannot do: remain loyal to his Lor d." - - St. Francis of Assisi "What is the truth?", Pilate once asked. Our society has made this question its own - and one has the clear impression that it does not want an answer. – Cardinal Joachim Meisner Archbishop of Cologne "But there is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so - called richer countries particularly seriously. It is what my much - loved predecessor, Benedict XVI, called the "tyranny of relativism", which makes everyone his own criterion and e ndangers the coexistence of peoples." - Pope Francis "If we do not profess Jesus Christ, things go wrong. We may become a charitable NGO, but not the Church, the Bride of the Lord... When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the de vil, a demonic worldliness." - Pope Francis Homily 3/14/2013 " When one does not profess Jesus Christ – I recall the phrase of Leon Bloy – “Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.” When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil. " - Pope Francis 3/14/2013 “Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter – those who thus fail to correct sinners – actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.” - St. Basil the Great “A Catholic who does not strive to spread his faith is a parasite on the life of the Church.” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen “In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” - Edward Gibbon All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics - Pope St. Pius V "I am not worthy to call myself Christian, if I cannot defend my Catholic faith." - St Justin martyr "Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does NOT exist." - Pope Benedict XVI God hid Himself because he wants us to search for Him. Finding God does not depend on the IQ, but on the will! - Dr. Peter Kreeft " Third, professing: we can walk as much we want, we can build many things, but if we do not confess Jesus Christ, nothing will avail. We will become a pitiful NGO, but not the Church, the Bride of Christ. " - Pope Francis Homily 3/14/2013 “The Dev il made me a Catholic,” – G.K. Chesterton meaning that it was the experience of evil and nothingness that convinced him of the goodness and sanity of the world and his creator. "It is a thousands times better to die with Our Lord than to live without Him. " Saint Francis de Sales “Who is going to save our Church? Not our Bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your b ishops like bishops and your religious act like religious” - Archbishop Fulton Sheen "From its very starting point Islam denies what Christianity takes as its central truth claim - the fact that Jesus Chris is the only begotten Son of the Father. If Allah ha s no Son by definition, Allah is not the God who revealed himself in the Son. How then can the use of Allah by Christians lead to anythin g but confusion...and worse?" - R. Albert Mohler Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa "In Bendict's (Pope Benedict XVI) view, the conception of God - as - pure - will" is at the root of the challenge that Islam presents for democratic insti tutions and cultures. The Muslim God is a completely arbitrary deity, and therefore Islam is incompatible with deliberative democracy" 17 For one of the most erudite and influential Christian leaders of today, a chasm yawns between Islam and Christianity. The organization of social life is "completely different" in the two, and at the heart of that social difference lie two distinct understandings of God." - Miroslav Volf "Allah a Christian Response" “There are many causes of war, but battles amongst Chr istians are not as brutal as those between Turks and Christians. One Christian fights another Christian over the possession of land, over dominion, over power, over honor; he fights a Turk over religion, over liberty, over life.” - Pope Pius II, Epistula ad Mahumetem 17 " People need to remember, recognize or just plain learn for the 1st time that Abortion is a Satanic Sacrifice" - Ex - satanist Zac King. "Now sometimes the things commanded by a superior are against God; therefore, superiors are not to be obey ed in all things." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica IIa - IIae, Q.104 " Religious profess obedience as to the regular mode of life, in respect of which they are subject to their superiors: wherefore they are bound to obey in those matters only which may belong to the regular mode of life, and this obedience suffices for salvation. If they be willing to obey even in other matters, this will belong to the superabundance of perfection; provided, however, such things be not contrary to God or to the rule they profess, for obedience in this case would be unlawful. " - St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica “It is important, however, to remember that the greatest work of charity is evangelization, whi ch is the “minist ry of the word . “There is no action more beneficial, and therefore more charitable, towards one’s neighbor than to break the bread of the word of God.” - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals 3/12/2013 Mass for the election of the Roman Po ntiff http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic - news/Vatican.php?id=7216#ixzz2NPZMTLrl "The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill some one who cannot defend himself." -- Pope Francis "defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court, or kill you. No child should be d eprived of the right to be born" - Pope Francis 2005 " In p ractice, do we make the lay faithful sharers in the Mission?” As pastors, bishops and priests are we conscious and convinced of the mission of the lay faithful and do we give them the freedom to continue discerning, in a way befitting their growth as disci ples, the mission which the Lord has entrusted to them? Do we support them and accompany them, o vercoming the temptation to manipulate them or infantilize them ?” - Pope Francis 7 - 28 - 2013 World Youth Day Rio de Janeiro "Our Lord was crucified by the nice p eople who held that religion was all right in its place, so long as its place was not here, where it might demand of them a change of heart. The gravest error of the nice people in all ages is the denial of sin." - Bishop Fulton Sheen "In temptations again st chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity." -- St. Alphonsus Liguori "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln "No one can love his neighbor unless one loves God first." - Fabian F. Agruda Jr. "[Catholics] are born for combat." – Pope Leo XIII "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." - James Madison “If we an noy people, blessed be the Lord. We can ask the Holy Spirit to give us all this apostolic fervor and to give us the grace to b e annoying when things a re too quiet in the Church. “There are those who are well mannered, who do everything well, but are unable to bring people to the Church through p roclamation and apostolic zeal. Paul, in preaching of the Lord, was a nuisance, but he had deep within him that most Christia n of attitudes, apostolic zeal. He was not a man of compromise, no!” he exclaimed. “The truth, forward! The proclam ation of Jesus Christ, forward! “He is a man who, with his preaching, his work, his attitude irritates others, because testifying to Jesus Christ and the proclamation of Jesus Christ makes us uncomfortable It threatens our comfort zones, even Christian comfort zones, right?” he asked the congregation. “It irritates us. According to the Pope, St. Paul was a “fiery” individual who was always in trouble, “not in trouble for troubles’ sake, but for Jesus” because “proclaiming Jesus is the consequence. “So let us ask the Holy Spirit for this grace of apostolic zeal, let’s be Christians with apostolic zeal, onwa rds, as the L ord says to Paul, take courage! ” The pontiff said apostolic zeal “implies an element of madness,” which he labeled as “healthy” and “spiritual.” He added that it “can only be understood in an atmosphere of love” and that it is not an “enthu sia sm for power and possession. ” Pope Francis Vatican mass May 16 Chapel Saint Martha residence "Anyone who denies the law of non - contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burne d is not the same as not to be burned." ~Avicenna, Islamic philosopher (AD 980 - 1037) "The difficulty of explaining 'why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true." - G.K. Chesterton " Th e only thing that keeps a Catholic a Catholic is obedience to the Pope and the Magisterium! When obedience stops, the Catholic is no longer Catholic, but Protestant. " - Bill Foucault "The defense of his Faith is the first duty of every Christian, more espe cially of every priest and bishop. Wherever an order carries with it the danger of corrupting Faith and morals, 'DISOBEDIENCE' becomes a GRAVE DUTY". - Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre “What our Lord says to Judas, he says to the world today: You seemingly are v ery interested in social justice. Why are you not concerned about individual justice? You love your neighbor, why do you not love God? This is the attitude of the world today. We have swung away from a period in which we were concerned with individual sanc tification to the neglect of the social order. Now we have gone to the extreme of being immersed with social justice, civil rights, and so forth, and we are not the least bit concerned about individual justice and the duty of paying honor and glory to God. If you march with a banner, if you protest, then your individual life may be impure, alcoholic, anything you please. That does not matter. Judas is the patron saint of those who divide that universal law of God: Love God and love neighbor.” - Archbishop Fu lton J. Sheen "Whatever started the universe is the beginning; therefore, it must be infinite. If it is not infinite, then it cannot be the beginning" - Bill Foucault "The fact that there is great intelligence in the universe proves that a great intellig ence created it" - Bill Foucault "There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance...Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen 1931 'The Curse of Broadmindedness' " Those who are prepared to die are prepared to live. " - Our Daily bread Hope DOES NOT CHANGE the truth. Hope is BIRTHED FROM the truth! - Bill Foucault "The legitimate sep aration of Church and State cannot be taken to mean that the Church must be silent on certain issues, nor that the State may choose not to engage, or be engaged by, the voices of committed believers in determining the values which will shape the future of the nation." ~Pope Benedict XVI " We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others. " ~St Clare of Assisi " Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for all true r enewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with o ne’s own preferences and ideas?" - Pope B enedict XVI, Chrism Mass 4/5/12 " St. Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but sti ll Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned. " - St. Alphonsus Mar ia Liguori "It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass." - Padre Pio " Holy Communion is the sho rtest and safest way to heaven." Pope Saint Pius X " It would never be made human if it were not human al ready. " - Pope Benedict XVI & Sacred Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith "Some of my Protestant friends tell me that only Jesus' cross is important. I tell them that Jesus didn't take up his cross for good reason, only to have us take up our cross for no reason." - Leonard Alt "It is finished", means "Jesus' work is finished"; however, our work begins." - Dominic Mascarenhas " M ixing truth with a lie makes the lie much stronger." - C.S. Lewis “You cannot leave Peter because of Judas.” – Tim Stap les "Politics and economics are determined by the sense of values which underlies them." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen "We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile. ” – Hilaire Belloc, This That and the Other (1912) " "It is ea sy for many to be overcome by a few; in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between deliverance by many or by few; for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven. With great presumption and lawl essness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us; but we are fighting for our lives and our laws." 1 Maccabees,ch.3 18 - 21 "The Roman Catholic Church is the only church that is neither a national church, nor a State c hurch, nor a sect founded by a man; it is the only church in the world which maintains and asserts the principle of universal social unity against individual egoism and national particularism; it is the only church which maintains and asserts the freedom o f the spiritual power against the absolutism of the State; in a word, it is the only church against which the gates of hell have not prevailed." - (Vladimir Soloviev, Russia and the Universal Church) “Our Saviour…has taught us to judge the tree by its frui t,” Thomas Jefferson America’s third president, wrote to Martin Van Buren, America’s eight president. "I don't hate gay people. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell." - Stephen Colbert “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison, an d his successor will die a martyr in the public square,” - Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, 2010 " Nor should we think that it is enough for salvation that we are no worse off than the mass of the careless and indifferent, or that in our faith we are, l ike so many others, uninstructed ." - St. Bede the Venerable Love is not tolerance BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. The cry for toler ance never induces it to quench its hatred of the evil philosophies that have entered into contest with the Truth. It forgives the sinner, and it hates the sin; it is unmerciful to the error in his mind. The sinner it will always take back into the bosom of the Mystical Body; but his lie will never be taken into the treasury of His Wisdom. Real love involves real hatred: whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the buyers and sellers from the temples has also lost a living, fervent love of Truth. Charity, then, is not a mild philosophy of "live and let live"; it is not a species of sloppy sentiment. Charity is the infusion of the Spirit of God, which makes us love the beautiful and hate the morally ugly. - Archbishop Fult on Sheen "Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them." - Archbishop Fulton Sheen "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was Legal" - Martin Luther King Jr. "To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. " - Martin Luther King Jr. "People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them" - St. Augustine. " Once abolish the God, the government becomes the god. " - G.K. Chesterton “We believe in the separation of Church and State, but that is not the same thing as a separation between faith and politics. Faith is what we believe, politics is how we act. We are hypocrites if we fail to act in accord with o ur beliefs.” - Archbishop Charles Chaput " They who are to be saved as Saints, and wish to be saved as imperfect souls, shall not be saved. " - Pope St. Gregory the Great " I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a v ote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy. " - Bishop Thomas John Paprocki http://ct.dio.org/bishops - column/59 - think - and - pray - about - your - vote - in - upcoming - election/text.html "It is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism wh ich finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life. Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion." -- Pope Benedict XVI "Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it." - St. Augustine " No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the Rosary" - Bishop Hugh Doyle Thomas Jefferson, embroiled in a war with Islamic terrorists in his day, commented, “Too long, for the honor of nations, have those Barbarians been [permitted] to trample on the sacred faith of treaties, on the rights and laws of human nature!” Koranic teaching that the faith or “submission” can be, and in suitable circumstances must be, imposed by force, has never been ignored. On the contrary, the history of Islam from Arabia was fol lowed by the rapid conquest of North Africa, the invasion and virtual conquest of Spain, and a thrust into France that carried the crescent to the gates of Paris. It took half a millennium or reconquest to expel the Moslems from Western Europe. The Crusade s, far from being an outrageous prototype of Western imperialism, as is taught in most of our schools, were a mere episode in a struggle that has lasted 1,400 years and were one of the few occasions when Christians took the offensive to regain the “occupie d territories” of the Holy Land. - Paul Johnson “‘Relentlessly and Thoroughly’: The Only Way to Respond,” National Review (October 15, 2001) "Go see St. Peter's now while you still can, because in about 50 years or less, it will be turned into a Mohammeda n mosque. And if you think it can't happen, consider what happened to the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople when the Turks conquered in 1453. They converted it to a mosque, and was used as such for over 400 years." - Bishop Donald Sanborn s aid in his seminary newsletter " They who are enlightened to walk in the way of perfection, and through lukewarmness wish to tread the ordinary path, shall be abandoned. " - Blessed Angela of Foligno "To write history and hate Rome, both pagan and papal, is practically to hate nearly everything that has happened." -- G.K. Chesterton " Chesterton can see from a century ago that the world was headed to a time when smoking a cigar would be considered more offensive than performing an abortion. " – Dale Ahlquist " Why has it become a grave sin and major offense to use a racial slur, but acceptable to use God's name in vain? " - Bill Foucault One of the most dangerous places in Britain is in a woman’s womb.” ~Edward Leigh MP "It is a far, far better thing that I do , than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." - Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 - 1870) “Catholics need to wa ke up from the illusion that the America we now live in – not the America of our nostalgia or imagination or best ideals, but the real America we live in here and now – is somehow friendly to our faith. What we’re watching emerge in this country is a new k ind of paganism, an atheism with air - conditioning and digital TV. And it is neither tolerant nor morally neutral.” (Archbishop Charles Chaput, from “A Thread for Weaving Joy” on January 22nd, 2012 in Washington D.C.) “We must remember that men will fire b ullets, but God decides where they land.” - General Enrique Gorostieta "Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good." Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christian, 1890 Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci “W hat is attained with difficulty may sink more deeply into the mind and heart .” – Pope Leo XIII Providentissimus Deus" "If you will not fight for the right when you can e asily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to pe rish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” – Albert Einst ein “What our Lord says to Judas, he says to the world today: You seemingly are very interested in social justice. Why are you not concerned about individual justice? You love your neighbor, why do you not love God? This is the attitude of the world today . We have swung away from a period in which we were concerned with individual sanctification to the neglect of the social order. Now we have gone to the extreme of being immersed with social justice, civil rights, and so forth, and we are not the least bi t concerned about individual justice and the duty of paying honor and glory to God. If you march with a banner, if you protest, then your individual life may be impure, alcoholic, anything you please. That does not matter. Judas is the patron saint of thos e who divide that universal law of God: Love God and love neighbor.” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Cardinal Juan de Torquemada [1388 - 1468] was a revered medieval theologian responsible for the formulation of the doctrines that were defined at Florence. Cardina l Torquemada, who is considered an ardent "papalist", teaches: "Were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scriptures, or the articles of faith, or the truth of the Sacraments, or the commands of the natural or Divine law, he ought not to be obeyed, bu t in such commands he is to be disregarded." [Summa de ecclesia (Venice: M. Tranmezium, 1561). Lib. II, c. 49, p. 163B "What shall a Catholic do if some portion of the Church detaches itself from communion of the universal Faith? What other choice can he make if some new contagion attempts to poison, no longer a small part of the Church, but the whole Church at once, then his great concern will be to attach himself to antiquity [Tradition] which can no longer be led astray by any lying novelty." Saint Vin cent of Lerins c. 445 A.D “This right to religious freedom is blasphemous, for it attributes to God purposes that destroy His Majesty, His Glory, His Kingship. This right implies freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, and all the Masonic freedoms. " - Archbishop Levebre - 1976 Belief in the Eucharist is a treasure we must seek by submissiveness, preserve by piety, and defend at any cost. Not to believe in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest of misfortunes. -- St Peter Emyard “ We therefore grossly de ceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if it remain slight, weak, and superficial. By serious and frequent meditation it must be concocted, digested, and turned into the nourishment of our affections, before it can be powerful and operative enough to change th em, and produce the necessary fruit in our lives. For this all the saints affected solitude and retreats from the noise and hurry of the world, as much as the ir circumstances allowed them. - Saint Apollinaris “A Catholic would be guilty of formal coopera tion in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.”~Pope Benedict XVI “ Ignorance of s cripture is ignorance of Christ” - Saint Jerome First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Th en they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then th ey came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out be cause I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. - Martin Niemöller In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I d idn't s peak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Martin Niemöller “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing - they believe in anything.” - G. K. Chesterton “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” – Thomas Mann “ Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions " - G.K. Chesterton "What is urgent is the evangelization of a world that not only does not know the basic aspects of Christian dogma, but in great part has lost even the memory of the cultural elements of Christianity." - Pope J ohn Paul II " The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine pro - posed by her authoritative magisterium." (Pope Leo XIII) "If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I wo uld look for the Church which the world hated. My reason for doing this would be, that if Christ is in any one of the churches of the world today, He must still be hated as He was when He was on earth in the flesh. If you would find Christ today, then find the Church that does not get along with the world. Look for the Church that is hated by the world as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church that is accused of being behind the times, as our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having l earned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of D evils. Loo k for the Church which, in seasons of bigotry, men say must be destroyed in the name of God as men crucified Christ and thought they had done a service to God. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pi late rejected Christ because He called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which is rejected by the world as Our Lord was rejected by men. Look for the Church which amid the confusions of conflicting opinions, its members love as they love Christ, and r espect its Voice as the very voice of its Founder, and the suspicion will grow, that if the Church is unpopular with the spirit of the world, then it is unworldly, and if it is unworldly it is other worldly. since it is other - worldly, it is infinitely love d and infinitely hated as was Christ Himself. But only that which is Divine can be infinitely hated and infinitely loved. Therefore the Church is Divine." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen " salvation comes from Christ and that dialogue does not dispense from e vangelization." - Pope John Paul II; Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (August 6, 1964): AAS 56 (1964), 609 - 659; Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, "I saw one of my successors taking to fl ight over the bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge in disguise somewhere and after a short retirement he will die a cruel death. The present wickedness of the world is only the beginning of the sorrows which must take place before the end of the wor ld." - Prophecy of Pope Saint Pius X (20th century, Italy) " Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have rejoiced in their loss of freedom who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industri ous." - Marcus Cicero . PETER THE ROMAN. Malachy added this to his final prophecy: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven - hilled city (The Vatican or Jerusalem ) will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End." - ST Malachi "Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen." "Man y of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens." ~Ben Stein John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 warned his fellow countryme n stating, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams “The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There’s not one of them which won’t make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You mi ght think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn’t. If you leave out justice you’ll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials ‘for the sake of humanity’ and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.” ~ C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” "To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends." – C.S. Lewis “Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect h er not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather – to call thin gs by their names – total licens e. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live wi th? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .” - Cato the Elder 234 – 149 B.C., quoted in Livy’s History of Rome Jeffrey Dahmer: "If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then – then what’s the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing…" [An interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, Nov. 29, 1994]. "Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance." Sir Isaac Newton “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory.” Thomas Jefferson "Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" -- Thomas Jefferson “We learn, on the one hand , that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.” – C.S. Lewis "H ELL IS EMPTY AND AL L OF THE DEVILS ARE HERE "....William Shakespeare" "It is better to yell the truth, than to whisper a lie" – Bill Foucault “ Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace , is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love ; of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. ” - C.S. Lewis "Ye are to be salt, not the sugar candy... something the world spits out, not something the world loves." ~Charles H Spurgeon Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. – C.S. Lewis How can one have freedom of choice w/o the freedom to make judgements? – Bob Palmer Jr. “Diversity is a disguise for perversity” – Michael Savage "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "History will have to re cord that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that ma tter. " - Martin Luther King, Jr “A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abo rtion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of prop ortionate rea sons.” - Pope Benedict XVI – with RiseUp Church and Webly Gomes . "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right ." - Abraham Lincoln "The Philosophy of the classroom of one generation will be the philosophy of the government of the next generation." - Abraham Li ncoln "But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on th e single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty - three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, an d neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of he retical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not b e embraced. -- St. Alphonsus Maria De Liguori (1696 - 1787) "Nowadays the kingdom is much spoken of, but not always in a way consonant with the thinking of the Church . In fact, there are ideas about salvation and mission which can be called "anthropocentric" in the reductive sense of the word, inasmuch as they are focused on man's earthly needs. In this view, the kingdom tends to become someth ing completely human and secularized; what counts are programs and struggles for a liberation which is socio - economic, political and even cultural, but within a horizon that is closed to the transcendent. Without denying that on this level too there are va lues to be promoted, such a notion nevertheless remains within the confines of a kingdom of man, deprived of its authentic and profound dimensions. Such a view easily translates into one more ideology of purely earthly progress. The kingdom of God, however , "is not of this world...is not from the world" (Jn 18:36)." - Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris - Missio “Our Saviour…has taught us to judge the tree by its fruit,” Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, wrote to Martin Van Buren, America’s eight presid ent. That is precisely what we should do with regard to Islam, which constitutes the greatest political threat facing the West today. Many people underestimate this threat. Some do not see it at all, believing Islam is merely a religion like any other. The threat, however, is political, because Islam seeks to exert totalitarian control over every aspect of life. Islam claims it all: God’s part, but also Caesar’s. – Geert Wilders stop pretending that Islam is merely a religion – it is primarily a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West. A free society should not grant freedom to those who want to destroy it. – Geert Wilders “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.” Sir Winston Churchill "A frien d to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle I assure you God/Jesus did not intend for Christians to be second class citizens and doormats for the heathens. – Kim Kelly "Milton was right…" The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." There is always something they insist on keep ing even at the price of misery” – C.S. Lewis " No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the R osary" - Bishop Hugh Doyle "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." - George Washington “ A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe - inspiring and more clearly v isible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ” - Khalil Gibran "If there is anything in this life which sustains a wise man and induces him to maintain his serenity amidst the tribulations and adversities of the world, i t is in the first place, I consider, the meditation and k nowledge of the Scriptures." – Saint Jerome Id., In Ephesios, prologus ; PL 26, col. 439. "Tell us straight that you do not believe in the Gospel of Christ; for you believe what you want in the Gospel and disbelieve what you want. You believe in yourself rather than in the Gospel." Saint Augustine "But Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the the oretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged, but in the zeal for their intellectual and moral improvement as well as f or their material well - being." - Pope St. Pius "We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence." Saint Catherine of Siena Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions " - G.K. Chesterton When one does not judge right from wrong and wh en when does not judge evil as being evil and sin as sin, then one is tolerating evil, which is a grave sin - Bill Foucault Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. - Mohandas Gandhi "Jesus is there for us in the Scripture. How often do we ignore Him? We must shake off this indifference. Only the Faith and the wisdom of the Church can save us, but it requires men and women, warriors ready to risk their good names, even their very lives to stand up for the truth." - Jim Caviezel "Without the Creator the creature would disappear ... But when God is forgotten the creature itself grows unintelligible". – 2 Vatican Council I'll take it even further, to oppose God would almost show more faith in Him than many christians show! Thats kinda sad really!!! – Mark Revis “It afflicts my heart to see so many souls apostatizing from Jesus. What freezes the blood close to my heart is the fact that many of these souls become estranged from God solely because they are deprived of th e divine word.” – St. Padre Pio True love and charity is to want the best for someone. The best for someone is heaven - Father Corapi paraphrase I am a kindergarten teacher. 99.9% of Catholics are in kindergarten. – Father Corapi “ In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world's way of thinking . We must be in the world but not of the world, drawing our strength from C hrist, who by his De ath and Res urrection has overcome the world. ” – Pope John Paul II “You cannot give what you do not have”. - Pope John Paul II "If you are who you should be, you can set the wh ole world on fire" - St. Catherine of Siena "The spirit of humility, illumined b y faith, disposes the soul to the immolation of the will by means of obedience. Christ Himself established in the society He founded a legitimate authority which is a continuation of His own. Hence he who obeys the authorities of the church is obeying the Redeemer Himself." -- Pope Pius XII, "Menti Nostrae", 1950 "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical"...Thomas Jefferson. "[The Satanic Verses] is the title given to an episode which exists in the traditions of the life of the Prophet Muhammad," Rushdie says. "It suggests that, at one point, the devil appeared to him in the guise of the archangel and asked him to recite verses which accepted as semi - divine the three most popular pagan goddesses of pre - Islamic Mecca." - Salman Rushdie "Truth is hate for those that hate truth." Heaven is hell for those that hate God. That is why hell exists. Hell is God's mercy for those that hate Him. – Michael Voris "Abortion is a pretty e asy question.....unless you're Hannibal Lecter." ~ Ann Coulter " Who has ever seen people persuaded to love God by harshness? Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love." St. John of the Cross God and I don't believe in Atheists...therefor e they don't exist – James Crueger “What is more sublime than to scrutinize, explain, propose to the faithful and defend from unbelievers the very word of God, communicated to men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit? – Pope Leo XIII Providentissimus D eus" Indeed, democracies are bound to follow the scale of values of their citizens. But if everything has the same value, everything becomes more indifferent. – Cardinal Joachim Card. Meisner Archbishop of Cologne Is it not enough to know the evil to shu n it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we lo ve evil too well to give it up. - Mohandas Gandhi "It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists." - Mohandas Gandhi* “ God is consc ience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. ” – Gandhi Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. -- Heywood Broun "The Roman Catholic Church is the only church that is neither a national church, nor a State church, no r a sect founded by a man; it is the only church in the world which maintains and asserts the principle of universal social unity against individual egoism and national particularism; it is the only church which maintains and asserts the freedom of the spi ritual power against the absolutism of the State; in a word, it is the only church against which the gates of hell have not prevailed." - (Vladimir Soloviev, The Russian Church and the Papacy) "A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent." ~Augustine "God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us." - Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1505) ''To confront liberalism fully we . . . had to subvert liberal culture, and this meant disrupting the etiquette of liberalism. In other words, we had to become social guerrillas. And this we set out to do with a vengeance.'' ~Dinesh D'Souza, policy analyst and author “ The prophetic mission involves all the faithful as it once involved Ezechiel, in being sentinels for their contemporaries. If the Church were no longer to alert people to danger, she and society would be ruined. ” – Cardinal Joachim Card. Meisner Archbishop of Cologne The Grand Mufti's controversial statements contain nothing that Mohammed had not said and can the founder of a religion misunderstand his own teachings? - Daniel Greenfield "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God" - Oliver W endell Holmes " Neve r tire of asking forgiveness." - Pope Francis. You Are Approved... This is what you always need to know: You have nothing to prove to anyone - if you're in Him, you are already approved. Be okay with not being liked: life's about alta rs not applause. And be okay with not being seen or heard. It' ll let you hear and see better. - Ann Voskamp Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard, American entrepreneur and philosopher (founder of the Roycroft firm) (1856 - 1915 ) “ In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every mi raculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does. ” – C.S. Lewis “Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than J esus did.” – Saint Maximilian Kolbe “ But what of the poor Ghosts who never get into the omnibus at all?' 'Everyone who wishes it does. Never fear. There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, " Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self - choice there could be no Hell . No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.' o p. 72; part of this has also been rendered in a variant form, and quoted as: There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." – C.S. Lewis “Evil is powerless if the good ar e unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan Show me a man that does not judge and I will show you a very evil man. – Bill Foucault The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann, American journ alist, author and public philosopher (1889 - 1974) How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? – Harry S. Truman, 33rd American president (1884 - 1972) “ Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery. ” - John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Fides et ratio, 90: AAS 91 (1999), 75 "But ideas of religious liberty should never be carried to far, as to drop religion altogether from government. To do this is to drop the idea of the existence of God. For the immut able and eternal principles o f reason concur with revelati on, in declaring, that God is an object of religious worship. We cannot realize his existence without admitting his existence as an object of worship. To deny either, is to deny both, and at once de stroys the foundation of conscience, and all moral obligation with it. No oath could be administered in a society of this complexion. A government of this character is a government for absolute atheists only. No man can plead liberty of conscience, thus fa r, without pleading against the very existence of conscience at the same time; and surely it must be erroneous to argue for such conscience, as does not consist with the existence of a moral world. But not to digress." William Morison 1792 "What Catholics once were, we are. If we are wrong, then Catholics th rough the ages have been wrong. We are what you once were. We believe what you once believed. We worship as you once worshipped. If we are wrong now, you were wrong then. If you were right then, we ar e right now". - Robert DePiante on tradi ti onalist s being the true C a tholics, unprotestantized by the C oncilair church "'Multiculturalism' is just a politically correct word for 'global acceptance of failed cultures.'" ~Salman Rushdie "Man, as a being, is of no account; he is dust, grass, vanity. But once he is adopted by the God of the universe as a son, he becomes part of the family i f that Being, whose excellence and greatness no one can see, hear or understand. – St. Gregory of Nyssa You must know your e nemy’s weapon – Father Corapi “If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.” ― Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ "Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure." - Robert Lefevre " Everybody is wro ng about everything, just about all the time.” ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” ― William Blake “Those who never retra ct their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” ― Joseph Joubert “I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. ” ― Bethania McKenstry “When you develop your opinio ns on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Impr obable First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got t he better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake. - Laurence Sterne "Forced acceptance is not acceptance, it's force." - Neal Wayne Cole " We Love Death More Than You Love Life." – Muslim Army Major Nidal Hakim Hasan " To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say, "Lord, I have no other will than Thine," it is truly lost in God, and united to Him. " - Saint Francis de Sales "THROUGH SOME FISSURE the smoke of Satan entered into the temple of God. " - Pope Paul VI, June 29, 1972 ON THE OCCASION OF HIS NINTH ANNIVER SARY OF HIS CORONATION "The ideal state", Plato's Socrates claimed, "is not found on earth, but perhaps in heaven there is a model for those who want to see it and base their own personality on this vision" (Plato, The Republic, IX, 592) But recognizing a vertical of sacred order, I must also believe that rights do not come from men or courts, or from governments, but only from God. Rights granted by men, courts, and governments are not rights but merely privileges that can be modified or denied accordin g to the whims of those in power. - Dean Koontz http://books.google.com/books?id=vyYfMm6ycO0C&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=Bu t+recognizing+a+vertical+of+sacred+order%2C+I+must+also+believe+that+rights+ do+not+come+from+men+or+courts%2C+or+from+governments%2C+but+only +f rom+God.+Rights+granted+by+men%2C+courts%2C+and+governments+are+not +rights+but+merely+privileges+that+can+be+modified+or+denied+according+to+t he+whims+of+those+in+power.+ - Dean+Koontz&source=bl&ots=a - vhrSfTXH&sig=r23zBnlROZgvY4v4LBYC - Jm2l5w&hl=en#v=onepag e&q=But%20recognizing%20a%20vertical%20of%20sac red%20order%2C%20I%20must%20also%20believe%20that%20rights%20do%2 0not%20come%20from%20men%20or%20courts%2C%20or%20from%20govern ments%2C%20but%20only%20from%20God.%20Rights%20granted%20by%20 men%2C%20courts%2C%2 0and%20governments%20are%20not%20rights%20b ut%20merely%20privileges%20that%20can%20be%20modified%20or%20denied %20according%20to%20the%20whims%20of%20those%20in%20power.%20 - Dean%20Koontz&f=false “Not every priest is a good, holy, and faithful priest.” – F ather Bill Casey St Thomas repeated often, "Every truth by whomever it is said is from the Holy Spirit" (I - II, q. 109, a. 1 ad 1). " No man has a right to choose his religion. Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself. We migh t as rationally maintain that two and two does not make four as the theory of Religious Liberty. Its impiety is only equaled by its absurdity " - . New York Freeman , official journal of Bishop Hughes, January 26, 1852. " If I can succeed in saving only a sing le soul, I can be sure that my own will be saved." - Saint Dominic Savio Fr. John Hardon (the greatest dogmatic theologian of the 20th century) ”we get in trouble when we tell God to go away and mind his own divine business.” - Fr. John Hardon " We Cathol ics dare not forget that the whole institutional structure of the hierarchy and laws, the practices of the sacraments, even the Mass and the Liturgy, are not ends in themselves. Their purpose is to lead us to a greater and greater love of Jesus Christ. The less I love Christ; I will hardly be motivated to share my faith with others. And to love Christ, I must come to know Him. This means intimate contact with Him, daily, and often during the day. " – Fr. John Hardon " Abortion’s not the only moral issue in the world but it is the most important. " – Bishop Thomas Tobin " For the soul is never so perfect in this life that she cannot attain to a higher perfection of love. " – God the Father to St. Catherine of Siena “Dear God! If all were aware of your severi ty as well as of your tenderness, what creature would be so foolish as to dare to offend you?” – Padre Pio in a letter on May 27, 1914 "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Sir Edmond Burke " We cannot be content being nice. There is going to be a lot of nice people in hell because they didn’t stand up for anything. They just wanted to be nice. " – Father Tony Stephens “I think You’ve gone mad in Your love for us.” – St. Catherine of Siena to God "I expect to die in bed , my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr". Patrick Madrid quoting Archbishop Charles Chaput (Denver Diocese) quoting Cardinal Francis George Archbishop of Chicago 2010 "Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revol utionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists." Pope St. Pius X http://parishableitems.wordpress.com/201 0/08/05/signs - of - the - times - %E2%80%94 - thursday - 18th - week - in - ordinary - time%E2%80%94year - ii/ “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to th e man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt , Sorbonne 1 910 The Rt. Rev. Foley, Bishop of Chicago on December 30, 1880 translated the following law and swore before the court of Kankakee that it was promulgated by St. Thomas Aquinas as an unchangeable law of the church of Rome. " Though heretics must not be tol erated because they deserve it, we must bear with them, till, by a second admonition, they may be brought back to the faith of the church. But those who, after a second admonition, remain obstinate in their errors, must not only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered to the secular power to be exterminated " . - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologia, Vol. iv. p. 90. Bishop Foley was forced to acknowledge further, under oath, that this doctrine was taught in all the colleges seminaries and universities of the Roman Church and that every priest had to acknowledge that every word of this teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas had been inspired by the Holy Ghost. " We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy that exalts itself against the holy orthodox and Catholi c faith condemning all heretics, by whatever name they may be known, for though their faces differ, they are tied together by their tails. Such as are condemned are to be delivered over to the existing secular powers to receive due punishment. If laymen, their goods must be confiscated. If priests, they shall be degraded from their respective orders, and their property applied to the church in which they officiated. Secular powers of all ranks and degrees are to be warned, induced, and if necessary, com pelled by ecclesiastical censure, to swear that they will exert themselves to the utmost in the defense of the faith, and extirpate all heretics denounced by the church, who shall be found in their territories. And whenever any person shall assume governme nt, whether it be spiritual or temporal, he shall be bound to abide by this decree. If any temporal lord, after having been admonished and required by the church, shall neglect to clear his territory of heretical depravity, the Metropolitan and Bishop of the Province, shall unite in excommunicating him. Should he remain contumacious a whole year, the fact shall be signified to the Supreme Pontiff, who will declare his vassals released from their allegiance from that time, and will bestow his territory on C atholics, to lie occupied by them, on condition of exterminating the heretics and preserving the said territory in the faith. Catholics who shall assume the cross for the extermination of heretics, shall enjoy the same indulgence, and be protected by the same privileges as are granted to those who go to the help of the Holy Land. We decree further that all those who have dealings with heretics, and especially such as receive, defend and encourage them, shall be excommunicated. He shall not he eligible to a ny public officer. He shall not be admitted as a witness. He shall neither have the power to bequeath his property by will, nor succeed to an inheritance. He shall not bring any act ion against any person, but any one can bring action against him. Should he be a judge, his decision shall have no force, nor shall any cause be brought before him. Should he be an advocate, he shall not b e allowed to plead. Should he be a lawyer, no instruments made by him shall be held valid, but shall be condemned with their au thors. " - St. Thomas Aquinas "Life is the gift of a loving God, and each human being is made in the image and likeness of God. We see life as a sacred trust over which we can claim stewardship, but not absolute dominion." (Catholic Bishops of Florida, Life , Death and the Treatment of Dying Patients, 1989) "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - George Washington " The depths of the study and what can be lea rned are endless. The depth of Catholic theology over against Protestant is like the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean (seven miles deep) compared with Lake Erie (about 300 feet). " - Dave Armstrong "In the words of the Apostolic See the Catholic faith is s o ancient, well - founded, certain and clear that it would be criminal for a Christian to doubt them." - St. Augustine What is not operative in the social order and cannot ever be present there, little by little loses its relevance in the consciousness of s imple and ordinary persons and in the end dies out. - Card. Giacomo Biffi Archbishop of Bologna "Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps the premises [buildings] or the one who keeps the Faith? The Faith obviously. That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved in the churches from old time until now may not be lost in our days,... rouse yourselves, brethren,... seeing them now seized upon by aliens. ~ St. Athanasius, 371 (during the Arian Heresy) One soul saved is worth more than our lives., Saint Madeline Sophie Barat O Priest! You are not yourself because you are God. You are not of yourself because you are the servan t and minister of Christ. You are not you r own because you are the spouse of the Church. You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God an d man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything. O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: "He saved others, himself he cannot save!", Saint Norbert “You must try to please God alone, and if He is content everybody is content.” - Padre Pio in a letter on December 3, 1916. “The devil is not the cause of every sin” – Thomas Aquinas But grace and love are nothing without f aith, since without faith it is impossible to please God. And faith is not conceived unless the word of God is preached. Faith comes through hearing, and what is heard is the word of Christ. - Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (1559 - 1619), Doctor of the Church, F east Day July 21 "We will have peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meier “We will have peace when the Jews love their children more than they love false peace.” – Walid Shoebat “More people are becoming possessed: Fa ther Amorth compares the cultural atmosphere of today to the decadence of the declining years of the Roman Empire” – Father Amorth When I say "the world," I mean the corrupt and disordered life led in the world, the damnable spirit that reigns over the wo rld, the perverse sentiments and inclinations which men of the world follow, and the pernicious laws and maxims by which they govern their behavior. Christ looks upon the world as the object of His hatred and His curse, and as something He plans and desire s to burn in the day of His wrath. - St. Jean Eudes Oh how much are the worldlings deceived that rejoice in the time of weeping, and make their place of imprisonment a palace of pleasure; that consider the examples of the saints as follies, and their end as dishonourable; that think to go to Heaven by the wide way that leadeth only to perdition! St. John Southwell "Do not deceive yourselves, he who adheres to the author of a schism will not possess the kingdom of God." [Epistle to the Philadelphians, 3 (C H 158)] - Saint Ignatius of Antioch: In necessary things unity, in undecided things freedom, and in all things charity. – St. Augustine Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. -- St. Thomas Aquinas I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was, "Lord, give me the energy to change the world." As I approached middle age and realized that half my life was gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to "Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my family and friends, and I shall be satisfied." Now that I am old and my days are numbered, my one prayer is, "God, give me the grace to change myself." If I had pra yed this right from the start I should not have wasted my life. The Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello Motherhood is sometimes presented as something backward or as a limitation of a woman's freedom, thus distorting its true nature and dignity. Childre n are presented not as what they are – a great gift of God – but rather as something to be defended against John Paul II - Cuba, January 1998 “ The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself wit h people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God." Thomas Merton The first s tep of humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all., Saint Benedict "Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of fre edom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.", Bishop Fulton Sheen "Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti - Christian world Power." - ArchBishop Fulton Sheen Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. - Saint Francis de Sales Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - Saint Francis de Sales We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. - Saint Francis de Sales When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Saint Francis de Sales "Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.", St. Nicholas of Flue "Faith is the union of God and the soul.", St. John o f the Cross “ America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v.Wade has deformed a great nation. The so - called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partn ers. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a pare nt or a sovereign." (MotherTheresa -- "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14) It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world., Saint Aloysius Gonzaga “One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners”. – St. M argaret Mary Alacoque Pastor Matthew Henry, The Blue Letter Bible, “The bad will sooner debauch the good than the good reform the bad.” Oliver Wendell Holms wrote, "Once a person's mind is expanded by a new idea the mind can never return to its original form." Father Corapi "Learn your faith," he said. "You can't give what you don't have." Pope John Paul II Villagers hire gunmen to help them against bandits but the money they offer the gunmen is very small. But, the gunmen decide to help: "I've been o ffered a lot for my work, but never everything." - Yul Brynner in "The Magnificent Seven" “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you mu st give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it w ill change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers a nd perturbations of love is Hell.” – C.S. Lewis “He who angers you, conquers you”. – Elizabeth Kenny Oh my God! Would I might prevent all from offending Thee! Rather, would I could make Thee known, loved and served by all Thy creatures! This is the sole obj ect of my desire, for all things else are unworthy of attention., Saint Anthony Mary Claret I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim, to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world. - Saint Gemma Galgani All we do, our prayers, our work, our suffering, is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation. Mother Theresa “Marriage is one man, one woman, with God for life”. S t. John Chrysostum. “Since he has given us his Son, his only word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything at once in this sole word – and he has no more to say… because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has spoken all at once by gi ving us this All who is his Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be guilty not only of foolish behavior but also of offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely on Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty” - St. John of the Cross Henry Ford, “No one made himself wholly what he is: in a sense all humanity cooperated in the success that some men think they won alone.” – The People’s Tycoon. Ford CFO James Couzens, “The corporation that treat s every e mployee as if he were an individual and an entity instead of a number will soon find that it has a soul, and can do things which its less intelligent competitor cannot do.” Henry Ford , “I believe it is a disgrace for a man to die rich.” I predict future ha ppiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. – Thomas Jefferson "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridg e, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finish er. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." – Abraham Lincoln "Resisting tyranny is obeying God." - Thomas Jefferson Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or i njured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do. -- Ben Stein One can choose to be a Darwinian or a Nietzschean, but, were they aware of the intellectual incoherence of our time, I am rather sure those two brilliant thinkers would insist on the obviousness of the fact that one cannot be both. We cannot be, at the same time, both the captives and the masters of nature. - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti - Church, of the Gospel and the anti - Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church… must take up . – Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II), reprinted November 9, 1978, issue of The Wall Street Journa l from a 1976 speech to the American Bishops "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure". – Samuel Johnson “T he state's ability to make us happy is limited, but its capacity to make us miserable is not. ” – Daniel Hannan Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 23), June 29, 1943: “For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.” As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity c an survive. Pope John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and bin ds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. Pope John Paul II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religio n can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Pope John Paul II Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. Pope John Paul II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Pope John Paul II The great danger for family l ife, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II Th e historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. Pope John Paul II You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. Pope Jo hn Paul II You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. Pope John Paul II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Pope John Paul II Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II C.S. Lewis – Life “You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of t raining and correction and it’s not so bad.” – C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, page 52. Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free - wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. – C.S. Lew is , The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis – Atheism "Atheism turns out to be too simple . If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. " – C.S. Lewis , Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis – God My argument against God wa s that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? - C.S. Lewis , Me re Christianity " I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A ma n who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Ei ther this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing non sense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. " – C.S. Lewis , Mere Christianity, pages 40 - 41. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – Is Theology Poetry? C.S. Lewis You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it wo uld be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C.S. Lewis Let's pray that the human race never esc apes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I sh ould think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis Joy concluded that inasmuch as God apparently exists, then there is nothing more important than learning who He is and what He requires of us. Helen Joy Davidman Lewis Christianity, if fal se, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis Education without va lues, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you shou ld leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so d o instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. C. S. Lewis The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, withou t milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." C. S. Lewis What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. C . S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis "The essence of Gov ernment is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." ~ James Madison "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the Gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - W inston Churchill Evil grows and overwhelms when a passionate, violent , and vocal minority is ignored and acquiesced by an apathetic , pacifist, and silent maj ority. - Bill Foucault Your expectations can never be low enough to match the ignorance and depravi ty of human nature. - Bill Foucault Never put too much faith in people, for they will let you down every time. - Bill Foucault Catholics and Christians are like cockroaches, when you turn on the light they scatter back to the darkness. - Bill Foucault Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." ~ P. J. O'Rourke All Catholics know that Jesus came “to fulfill the law.” But in order to understand this fulfillment, we must know what Jesus meant by “the law.” In Bibl ical terms “the law” refers to the Books of Moses, but how many Catholics have a real mastery of Leviticus or Deuteronomy or Numbers? - Scott Hahn The Devil was an archangel once; his natural gifts were as far above yours as yours are above those of a ch impanzee. - C.S. Lewis “Here stands God on the day of creation. He looks at stars and He says “all you stars move yourself to this place and start in this order and move in a circle and move exactly as I tell you, until I give you another word. Planets - pick yourself up and whirl, make this formation at my command, until I give you another word. He looks at mountains and says “be lifted up” and they obey him. He tells valleys “be cast down” and they obey him. He looks at the sea and says “you will come this f ar”, and the sea obeys. Then, he looks at you and says “come” and you go “no! Does that bother anyone?” - Pastor Paul Washer “People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan.” – Pastor Paul Washer 'I don’t care how strong your religion is, or how strong your church life is, I don’t care how strong your morality is. On that day of judgment God will tear it down and it will wilt. Whenever humans declare themselves to be righteous they are doing it by contrasting themselves with other humans who are worse. And you can get away with that, but when your righteousness is contrasted with the righteousness of God there is nothing but to throw yourself down and declare your morality to be dung.' – Pastor Paul Washer How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “ It’ll only take five minutes. “? No my dea r friend, it will take your life – all of it! “ We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further. ” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is follo wing Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today]. - Pastor Paul Washer “If God must act against what is not just, He m ust act against you…A preacher who wants you to walk out the door feeling good about yourself will never enable you to feel good about God…Everyone thinks a good and loving God ought to do something about evil, but nobody wants to define evil…Why is it tha t you think that I must be angry about wickedness but you say it’s wrong for God to be angry about wickedness?” - Pastor Paul Washer You won’t hear much about this in modern day Christianity in America, but one of the greatest signs of God being with a peop le is His discipline. And one of the greatest signs of God not being with a people is the lack thereof. – Pastor Paul Washer So many of us – so many times – fight against a certain work of God without which we will never produce excellent fruit. We have been s o led into believing that everything difficult, everything that conflicts, everything that scrapes us and works as a rasp in our life to take away our comfort – that it’s from the devil. That’s what America has taught us; a comfortable Christianity. When wha t we do not realize is those who say such things are blaspheming. Because in the life of God’s people, in His Church, in His vineyard, God the Father is the vine dresser and He is the One that is cutting away at us. He is the One that is pruning us. He is the one that is cleaning us. – Paul Washer “ If anyone plans to violate the rights of the Iranian people, t he Iranian people will brand a shameful mark of remorse on his forehead ” - Mahmoud Ahmadineja d - President of Iran Revelations 13:16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for th e sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. – Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato "'All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Special Interest Communism - Bill Foucault II America has numerous decentralized specialized Communist parties - Bill Foucault II Not all denominations, but many Protestant denominations have more in common with Communism than Christ - Bill Foucault II Some Catholic parishes have more in common with Comm unism than Christ - Bill Foucault II T he enemy of my enemy is my friend - Arabic Proverb or Chinese proverb “A government that will force you to do what it thinks is good, will one day soon force you to do what is evil.” – Bill Foucault “What you believe and be lieve in, is what you love and who you are ” – Bill Foucault The secret to life is to get up one more time than you were knocked down – Bill Foucault Hell is full of demons that know the partial truth – Bill Foucault The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.. - St. John Chrysostom. You can find it in an article at Virtueonline on a corrupt Episcopalian bishop. "The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops." - Attribu ted to St. Athanasius "The more corrupt the st ate, the more it legislates" - Tacitus. "A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own" - Unknown. “ Thought for the day...since all forms of taxes are a deduction from income for a ny corpo ration, it is impossible to "shift the burden" from the public to the business. Taxes become a "cost" that is passed to the consumer. Business don't pay the tax, YOU do ” – Kevin Fox It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you. – Bare Naked Is lam " If you walk with Christ, you can't run with the world. " - Angelica Robles "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville A democratic government i s the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. - Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather b e equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value o f everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? - Alexis de Tocqueville Consider any individual at any period of his li fe, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. - Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equ ality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. - Alexis de Tocqueville He was as great as a man can be without morality. - Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. - Alexis de Tocqueville In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. - Alexis de Tocqueville In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready - made opinions for the use of individuals, who ar e thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. - Alexis de Tocqueville Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. - Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well - being which men acquire in times of equality. Alexis de Tocqueville There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis de Tocqueville The main busine ss of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well - being which men acquire in times of equality. - Alexis de Tocqueville There ar e many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville What is most important for democracy is not that great fortun es should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. - Alexis de Tocqueville When t he past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” - Benjamin Franklin "Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not ever listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has alread y been born." - Ronald Reagan "The truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do - gooders, we're denounced as being opposed t o their humanitarian goals." - Ronald Reagan 1964 A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? - Ronald Reagan Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from h ydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man - made sources. - Ronald Reagan Don't be afraid to see w hat you see. - Ronald Reagan Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, prote cted, and handed on for them to do the same. - Ronald Reagan Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. - Ronald Reagan Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan Government does not solve p roblems; it subsidizes them. - Ronald Reagan Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from our selves. - Ronald Reagan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. - Ronald Reagan Government's vie w of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. - Ronald Reagan History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti - Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. - Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. - Ronald Reagan Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Gov ernment programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! - Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. - Ronald Reagan Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. - Ronald Reagan People do not make wars; governments do. - Ronald Reagan Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the g overnment has for even existing. - Ronald Reagan Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. - Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. - Ronald Reagan The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. - Ronald Reagan There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. W e must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. - Ronald Reagan To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. - Ronald Reagan Trust, but verify. - Ronald Reagan We are never defeated unless we give up on God. - Ronald Reagan We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. - Ronald Reagan We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. - Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. - Ronald Reagan We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Rea gan We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free. - Ronald Reagan Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as f ar as possible, the need for its own existence. - Ronald Reagan When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. - Ronald Reagan Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. - Ronald Reagan Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. - Ronald Reagan  Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. o Address to the annual meeting of th e Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, (30 March 1961)  Later variant : Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it co mes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.  California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech (5 January 1967) - Ronal d Reagan  "Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" Reagan wondered. "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx – first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government b eing Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his state 'State Socialism' , and way before him it was relevant 'benevolant monarchy' ." o In a 1960 letter to the GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon , quoted in The Right Mom ent: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (2000) by Simon & Schuster, Matthew Dallek 0743213742, 9780743213745 , p. 38. – Ronald Reagan  But at the moment I'd like to talk about another way because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. . . . Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We have an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all peop le in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this. o Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (recording (1961) A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. Kennedy A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likel y to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. - John F. Kennedy Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F. Kennedy Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. - John F. Kennedy Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy "The core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Quran" -- Geert Wilders I [the Pope] acknowledge no civil power ; I am the subject of no prince; and I claim more than this. I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of menof the peasants that till the fields, and of the prince that sits upon the throne; of the household that lives in the shade o f privacy, and the legislator that makes laws for kingdomsI am sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong. Moreover, we declare, affirm, define, and pronounce it to be necessary to salvation to every human creature, to he subject to the Roman Pon tiff!!Cardinal Manning, speaking in the name of the Pope, Tablet, October 9, 1864. As for holy obedience, this virtue must be perfect in every point, in execution, in will, in intellect, doing which is enjoined with all celerity, spiritual joy, and persev erance; persuading ourselves that everything is just, suppressing every repugnant thought and judgment of ones own, in a certain obedience, should be moved and directed under Divine Providence, by his superior, just as if he were a corpse (Perinde acsi cad aver esset) which allows itself to be moved and led in every direction.Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercise. If the Holy Church so requires, let us sacrifice our own opinions, our knowledge, our intelligence, the splendid dreams of our imagination and the sublime attainments of human understanding.Pope Gregory XVI., Encyclical, August 15, 1832. I truly believe it's not how hard you can hit -- it's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward because that's really what makes the difference in your life. " – Sylvester Stallone “ A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ” - Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde A th ing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde “The only dif ference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the pers on who has nothing to eat. - Mother Teresa Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. - Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. - Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must h ave worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. - Mother Teresa We ourselves feel that what we are doing is ju st a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Teresa We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. - Mother Teresa "Governm ent is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master." (George Washington)" A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. - Winston Churchill An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill Allow the president to i nvade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. - Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Linc oln Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. - Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in th e people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. - Abraham Lincoln Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. - Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Bo th may be, and one must be wrong. - Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, a nd deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. - Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who do es this. - Abraham Lincoln No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham L incoln No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. - Abraham Lincoln Sir, my concern is n ot whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. - Abraham Lincoln Some single mind must be master, else there will be no a greement in anything. - Abraham Lincoln Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. - Abraham Lincoln The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. - Abraham Lincoln The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. - Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. - Abraham Lincoln There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one. - Abraham Lincoln Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln We the people a re the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. - Abraham Lincoln A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of l abor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. - Tho mas Jefferson An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. - Thomas Jefferson A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. - W illiam Shakespeare Boldness be my friend. - William Shakespeare Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. - William Shakespeare By that sin fell the angels. - William Shakespeare I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperit y is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery. - Winston Churchill If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me i s another matter. - Winston Churchill fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. - Winston Churchill You will never get to the en d of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks. - Winston Churchill It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill “ If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. ” - Benjamin Franklin ""Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be chan ged for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abus es and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. -- Such has been the pa tient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government." ~Declaration of Independence" "Hudna ...in Islam is the process of establishing covenant or a peace treaty with an enemy. And it's done solely for two purposes: one is to gain concessions, as the Palestinians did, and the second is to regain strength. Pastor Hagee: That's very interesting. That means any peace treaty they sign, they're not obligated to keep it. ” – John Hagee "[I]t should always be remembered that this law,. Made for men or for states, flows from the same Divine source: it is the law of The Lord God. What we do, indeed, must be founded on what he has done; and the deficiencies of our laws must be supplied by the perfections of His. Human law must rest its authority, finally, upon the authority of that law which is Divine. Far from being rivals or enemies, faith and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants." ~ James Wilson Those who can make you be lieve absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom. – Braveheart Freedom is only good for one thing; the freedom to choose God . And, by choosing God, you choose right from wrong, good from evil, wisdom from folly, faith from disbelief, hope from despair, and love from hate. – Bill Foucault Every man dies, not every man really lives. – Braveheart We all end up dead, it's just a q uestion of how and why. – Braveheart Robert's Father : All men betray. All lose heart. Robert the Bruce : I don't want to lose heart! I want to believe a s he does... I will never be on the wrong side again. – Braveheart There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom – Braveheart Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that t hey may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM! – Braveheart In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and wo n their freedom. – Braveheart M en don't follow titles, they follow courage. – Braveheart Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley Fal se hope is worse than despair. – Jonathan Kozol, American journalist and author (b. 1936) "Firearms stand next to importance to the Constitution itself . They are the American peoples Liberty teeth and keystone under independence...from the hour the Pilgrims landed to present day, events, occurances, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispe nsable...the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference, they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - George Washington If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw A liberal is someone who f eels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian Government is the grea t fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801 - 1850) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers If you think health care is expe nsive now, wait until you se e what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764) 15. Just because you do no t take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.) 16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866) Talk is cheap. ..except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly i s to fill t he world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820 - 1903) "Reaction is a necessary term in the intellectual context we inhabit in the twentieth century because merely to conserve is sometime to perpetuate what is outrageous." ~M.E. Bradford , writer and political commentator 22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain 23. What this country needs a re more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) “People need religion. It's a v ehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.” ~Irving Kristol, neoconservative intellectual, and policy analyst, father of William Kristol "we cannot allow a country to go communist because of the irresponsibility of its peopl e" ~Henry Kissinger in reference to the Allende government FIVE BEST SENTENCES 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. " A lie told once remains a lie bu t a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth" - Joseph Goebbels Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and e ventually they will believe it” – Adolph Hitler “The goal of socialism is communism” - Vladimir Lenin “Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion” – Richard John Kiss the hands of God, crucified for you, the hands that have struck you and caused you to suffer. Repeat over and over again to Him His own words to His Father while He w as suffering: Not my will but thine be done. In all that Thou wishest of me, today and for always, in heaven and on earth, let Thy will be done, but let it be done on earth as it is done in heaven.' - St. Claude de la Colombiere "The further a society drif ts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell "In a time of universal deceit - Telling the Truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell Atheist ’ s idea of humanity and compassion is to attempt to rob people of all sense of wisdom, morality, ethics, hope, faith, love and God. God being t he creator of all things good, w ithout God none of these things exist and sense they do not have God, they also h ave none of these things and they also don ’ t know the meaning of anything of th ese things. – Bill Foucault "Islam is the religion of peace like Satan is the angel of peace!" – Bill Foucault No one hates some one more than an atheist. Atheists hate God and all things of God and by definition this is absolute, true and total hatred. – Bi ll Foucault No one is angrier than an atheist. Atheists are angry at God and all things of God and this is absolute, true and complete anger. – Bill Foucault " Politicians emancipate themselves from the laws they enforce on the people." - Bill Foucault Bein g a humanitarian and having good will do not get one to heaven. Having Faith in Christ and in His Catholic Church, His Bride do. For in Faith a soul acquires grace, where their is rejection of Christ and/or His Bride grace is given not and a soul remains i n darkness even if ones conduct is laudible or by lip they professeth Christ by heart they professeth Him not. Faith without works is dead but likewise works without holding to the FAITH is equally dead. - Eric Gajewski There is no one more self righteous than an atheist. This is self evident and logically proven since they admit that all their beliefs and righteousness comes only from self and not from God. - Bill Foucault "How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. " - Mother Teresa What atheists and many fail to grasp is that sooner or later everyone who has ever lived suffers some tragedy or great sadness in life. The difference betw een atheists/haters and others is that unlike atheists/haters; not everyone become s so bitter, unforgiving and angry at God that they hate God and anyone or everything that believes in God or stands for God. – Bill Foucault “ "....We learn that all is understood as one ’s mind percei ves it". That belief is illogical and absurd and so is B uddhism. If that belief were true than there is no truth itself; thereby, proving that comment untruthful and self contradictory. ” – Bill Foucault "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry “Atheism was created to provide people with an excuse to sin and live perverted lifestyles” – Bill Foucault A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no char acter on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. - Thomas Jefferson Love... the conscience decision to place and keep another's needs before ones own, regardless of personal consequence. - G arrett Masarik I see you’re a wom an. I see your face, form and the fashion that is worn. I see your lips, hips and the nails on your fingertips. I see your physically and I recognize your mentality. I see you’re a woman. I see how you manipulate the minds of men with your eyes thighs an d with the idea that they might spend a night with you. I see your degrees and the material things that money brings. I hear bragging about being a independent woman. Yet you still ask money from men. I see you’re a woman. I hear the brashness of your m outh and I see the rolling of your eyes plus the snapping of your fingers. You are know by your wildness instead of your mildness. These things don’t make you a woman. Modesty. Is what makes you a woman. Modesty not just in the way you are dressed or how y ou put on your “Sunday best”. But in conversation, conduct and character. It is the hidden man of the heart that is the start of you becoming a woman of honor and respect and not only will your children but all people will raise up and call you blessed. - J . Wooten “You know, there are cartoons about The Pope every day in the papers, that you don't have Catholics burning down newspaper offices.” - Salman Rushdie “In the face of an unjust law,” the bishops wrote, “an accommodation is not to be sought, especia lly by resorting to equivocal words and deceptive practices. If we face today the prospect of unjust laws, then Catholics in America, in solidarity with our fellow citizens, must have the courage not to obey them.” - USCCB "The Moving Finger writes; and, h aving writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it" - Omar Khayam " Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. " - W.H. Auden September 1, 1939 "Because mankind is intrinsi cally wicked, he has to be governed. Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united – and they can only be united against other people." ~Leo Strauss, political philosopher " If something is moral or no t, can be determined logically. I t doesn't matter if a "man" or "men" are the one doing the determining . " - C.S Lewis "Bulverism fallacy" Bulverism is a logical fallacy in which, rather than p roving that an argument in fav o r of an opinion is wrong, a person instead assumes that the opinion is wrong, and then goes on to explain why the other person held it. It is essentially a circumst antial ad hominem argument. " You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily expla ining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it "Bulverism". Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, who se destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third – "Oh you say that because you are a man ." "At that moment", E. Bulver assure s us, "there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall." That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century. " - C.S. Lewis Lewis wrote about this in a 1941 essay [2] which was later expanded and published in The Socratic Digest under the title "Bulverism". [3] This was reprinted both in Undecepti ons and the more recent anthology God in the Dock . He explains the origin of this term "Until Bulverism is crushed, reason can play no effective part in human affairs." ~C. S. Lewis, writer " God demands personal and individual charity. God does not like blind and impersonal charity through a mass Bureaucratic government or agency that steals from the poor and only gives from the surplus of their misused funds " - Bill Foucaul t "If there was a disease that had killed almost 60 million humans in America alone since 1973, the public outcry for a cure would be deafening and the public outrage about the fact that many do not want a cure would be uncontrollable." - Bill Foucault " Being morally wise will never pay well in capitalist, socialist, or communist societies because the majority of people are not morally wise" - Bill Foucault "A blind man cannot remove his own blindness because the blind man has grown content and comfortabl e with his blindness. He is afraid to see because if he can now see, he is afraid he won't like what he sees, so he remains blind by choice for the rest of his days." - Bill Foucault "Islam is not the religion of peace. Islam is the religion of war and Muh ammad was a warlord." - Bill Foucault “Mohammad succeeded in building a political and theological empire at the expense of those of Moses and Jesus’ vicars.” - Volney Mohammad was an " apostle of a merciful God who preaches nothing but murder and carnage ,” and “shocks every notion of justice”. - Volney "The convulsions of the governments, and the ignorance of the people, in the quarter of the globe, originate more or less immediately in the Koran, and its morality." - Volney Muslim "fanaticism has never ceased to spread desolation and carnage. Asia once flourishing, is now languishing in insignificance and barbarism because of Islam...it consecrated the most absolute despotism in him who commands and imposes the most blind and passive obedience in those who are governed." - Volney Muhammad was troubled that "common sense might get the better of violence" - Cato, the pseudonym of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters or Essays on Liberty, Civil, and Religious February 17, 1721 The Koran is a "t issue of vague phrases, empty of meaning", a "collection of puerile stories, of ridiculous fables ". - Volney "Our world is slow to learn that those who turn out the lights of heaven, by that very act turn out the lights of earth." - Bishop Fulton Sheen "Eng[lish] True P[rotestant]: Why they represent them a parcel of Factious, Self Interested, Rebellious, Irreligious, Atheistical, sort of People. And indeed they don't contradict the charge, by their Practice. Their Lives are so Lewd, their Conversation i s so Treacherous; that they won't admit them fit for humane Society. Every step they make is towards, or in favor of a Rebellion. Their Principles are so visible[...] that their Malignants boldly affirm, that as long as there's a Conventicle in the Kingdom , we shall never be without a Republican Atheist or a true Protestant Mahometan." London 1684 " Let us never give in to that pessimism, that bitterness which the devil offers us every day. Let us not give in to pessimism and discouragement; we have that fi rm confidence which the Holy Spirit gives the Church, with his mighty breath, the courage to persevere and to seek new ways to evangelize, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the Earth (cf. Acts 1:8). The Christian truth is appealing and persuasive because it responds to the profound needs of human existence, announcing convincingly that Christ is the only Savior of the whole man and of all men. This announcement is still valid today, as it was at the beginning of Christianity, when the first great missionar y expansion of the Gospel was carried out. " - Pope Francis "There is no greater enemy of the Immaculata (Mary) and her Knighthood than today's ecumenism, which every Knight must not only fight against, but also neutralize through diametrically opposed act ion and ultimately destroy." - St. Maximilian Kolbe Published on Jan 26, 2013 "With the proof now in place...There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning." - Dr Alexander Vilenkin Theoretical physicist & Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminated and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous ap es will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the goril la. - Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man pt. I, chapter VI, p 201 " Do not be upset if it seems to you that at times you are moving (in the spiritual life) too slowly. " - St. Padre Pio “No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hetacombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?” ~St. Maximilian Kolbe "The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust . This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himsel as "I am Who am," and the Devil as "I am who am not." Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first "red." Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as "the Prince of this world," whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world . His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect -- and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion? The pre - Communist Ru ssian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves. . . . . . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and a ll the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion -- one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God's. In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of Go d. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . . . . . But the twenti eth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism." - Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs - Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24 - 25 "Satan will imitate the Church of Christ to deceive mankind; he will set up a church of Satan in opposition to the Church of Christ" - Fr. Sylvester Berry (1927) “No man is more sensible than I am of the service to science and letters, humanity, fraternity, and liberty, that would have been rendered by the encyclopedists and economists, by Voltaire, D’Alembert, Buffon, Diderot, Rousseau, La Lande, Frederic and Catherine, if they had possessed common sense … And what was their philosophy? Atheism, – pure, unadulterated atheism. Diderot, D’Alembert, Frederic, De La Lande, and Grimm, were indubit able atheists. The universe was master only, and eternal. Spirit was a word without a meaning. Liberty was a word without a meaning. There was no liberty in the universe; liberty was a word void of sense. Every thought, word, passion, sentiment, feeling, a ll motion and action was necessary. All beings and attributes were of eternal necessity; conscience, morality, were all nothing but fate. This was their creed ." - John Adams “In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. " - Richard Dawkins “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence, were … the general principles of Christianity and the general principles of English and American liberty.” - John Adams “That our Creator has a supreme right to prescribe a law for our conduct, and that we are under the most perfect obligation to obey that law, are truths established on the clearest and most solid principles.” - James Wilson "That law, which God has made for man in his present state; that law, which is communicated to us by reason and conscience, the divine monitors within us, and by the sacred oracles, the divine monitors without us. This law has undergone several subdivisions, and has been known by distinct appellations, according to the different ways in which it has been promulgated, and the different objects which it respects. As promulgated by reason and the moral sense, it has b een called natural; as promulgated by the holy scriptures it has been called revealed law.” - James Wilson “Human law must rest its authority, ultimately, upon the authority of that law, which is divine.” - James Wilson "A Catholic may sin and sin as badl y as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven...not excused or sublimated." - Bishop Fulton Sheen "We are not fighting today against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers of da rkness. And when we as a nation see that it is evil we are fighting against rather than an anti - capitalistic system or a false economics, may we rise up in the name of God and resist with greater ardour and conquer in the love of all that is Holy". - Bisho p Fulton Sheen "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been affor ded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." - Patrick Henry "Respect the old when you are young. Help the weak when you are strong. Confess the fault when you are wrong. Because one day in life you will be old, weak and wrong." - Edha 24 "There is no difference between a first trimester abortion, a second trimester abortion, a third trimester abortion, or infanticide. It's all the same human being in different stages of development. ..I finally got to the point where I couldn't look at those litt le bodies anymore. " - Dr. Beverly McMillan "Is is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." - Mother Teresa "How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words." - Samuel Adams "The separation of church and state is not meant to scrub every religious reference, every reference to God, from our society." - Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput and Bishop of Providence Thomas Tobin "I believe that until and unless someone can establish that t he unborn child is NOT a living human being, then that child is already protected by the Constitution." - Ronald Reagan "We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle "If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that hap pen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you." - Pope Benedict XVI "If the faith is in imminent peril, prelates ought to be accused by their subjects, even in public." - St. Thomas Aquinas "The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government." - Noah Webster "The moment the idea is admitted in to society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not Covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal', were not commandments of heaven, they m ust be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free." - John Adams "Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers gen erally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them." - Susan B. Anthony " But I know you would agree that those He's calling to Himself are often helped in the drawing process by seeing genuine Christianity lived out. " - Stephen Schwamb ach "This decision does not mean that we fear any man nor that we fear that the Roman Church will be overcome by the prudence of the Greeks, but because it would be completely unfitting - what is more, even non - necessary and illegal - to call into doubt t he prescribed purity of the true faith, affirmed by so many authorities on Scripture, fortified by the opinions of so many holy men and by the firm definition of the Roman Pontiffs. For the defense of this truth, if it were necessary, we ought to be ready to undergo martyrdom and even give our body to be exposed to death." - Pope Clement IV "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." - Calvin Coolidge "Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." - Mother Teresa "There are even hypocrites along this path , who make a show of fasting, of giving alms, of praying. I think that when hypocrisy reaches this point in the relation with God, we are coming very close to the sin against the Holy Spirit." - Pope Francis "I conjure you, by all that is dear, by all tha t is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that ye pray but that ye act." - John Hancock "The real question today is..what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being." - Ronald Reagan "People are often unreasonable and self - centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are king, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are hones t, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. F or you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa "Every legislator, every doctor, and every citizen needs to recognize that the real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of all hu man life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued and others are not." - Ronald Reagan "Charity means speaking the truth. I have encountered it [not speaking the truth] many times myself as a priest and bishop. It is something we si mply need to address. There is far too much silence - people do not want to talk about it because the topic is not "politically correct. But we cannot be silent any longer." - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke Q. Things seem to be declining at an accelerating rate in our country. For example, it is shocking how quickly things happened in Minnesota. A year ago it seemed almost certain that a November ballot referendum would constitutionally define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Despite a heroic effo rt by Archbishop John Nienstedt and many other Church leaders, it failed. Just four months later a law was enacted making Minnesota the 12th state to legalize so - called same - sex marriage. How did we get to this point? Aside from prayer and fasting, what can the faithful do? A. "First of all, I would underline the need for much prayer and fasting. The alarming rapidity of the realization of the homosexual agenda ought to awaken all of us and frighten us with regard to the future of our nation. This is a wo rk of deceit, a lie about the most fundamental aspect of our human nature, our human sexuality, which after life itself defines us. There is only one place these types of lies come from, namely Satan. It is a diabolical situation which is aimed at destroyi ng individuals, families, and eventually our nation. How did we get to this point? The fact that these kinds of “ arrangements” are made legal is a manifestation of a culture of death, of an anti - life and anti - family culture which has existed in our nati on now for some time. We as Catholics have not properly combatted it because we have not been taught our Catholic Faith, especially in the depth needed to address these grave evils of our time. This is a failure of catechesis both of children and young peo ple that has been going on for fifty years. It is being addressed, but it needs much more radical attention. I can say this because I was the bishop of two different dioceses. After fifty years of this, we have many adult voters who support politicians wit h immoral positions because they do not know their Catholic Faith and its teaching with regard to same - sex attraction and the inherent disorder of sexual relations between two persons of the same sex. Therefore, they are not able to defend the Catholic Fa ith in this matter. What has also contributed greatly to the situation is an exaltation of the virtue of tolerance which is falsely seen as the virtue which governs all other virtues. In other words, we should tolerate other people in their immoral actions to the extent that we seem also to accept the moral wrong. Tolerance is a virtue, but it is certainly not the principal virtue; the principal virtue is charity. Charity means speaking the truth, especially the truth about human life and human sexuality. W hile we love the individual, we desire only the best for one who suffers from an inclination to engage in sexual relations with a person of the same sex. We must abhor the actions themselves because they are contrary to nature itself as God has created us. The virtue of charity leads us to be kind and understanding to the individual, but also to be firm and steadfast in opposing the evil itself. This confusion is widespread. I have encountered it many times myself as a priest and bishop. It is something we simply need to address. There is far too much silence – people do not want to talk about it because the topic is not “ politically correct.” But we cannot be silent any longer or we will find ourselvesin a situation that will be very difficult to reverse." - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke "It’s a difficult choice, but we cannot ever say that the end justifies the means. There can be all kinds of situations, especially during times of war, and other situations where people are obliged to endure imprisonment, or even death itself in order to follow their conscience. For instance … St. John Fisher refused to acknowledge the supremacy of King Henry VIII over the Catholic Church; which would have been for him to deny that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth. An d he remained free in upholding the teaching of the Church, but it cost him his life. But his freedom was too important to him to give it up in order to save his life. The same way with St. Thomas More." - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke " Thirdly, in the situa tion as it is, which we simply must recognize, lay people giving witness to fellow lay people is the only solution. More and more sincere and informed Catholics must be ready to give an account of their Faith to others even if they are not the most eloquen t and articulate. The very fact that they approach and speak with a fellow Catholic about a question like freedom of conscience will not go without a positive effect on that individual. " - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke " If the present government, which can b e described in no other way than totalitarian, is not held back from the course it is on, these persecutions will follow. It will not be possible for Catholics to exercise most of the normal human services whether in health care, education, or social welfa re because in conscience they will no longer be able to do what the government demands: to cooperate in grave moral evil. We are heading in that direction and even see it now. " - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke " I never thought I would ever say this, but we sh ould follow the example of France. The French people have a government that is sadly much like our own. In a totalitarian way, it passed and is trying to enforce a bill giving legal recognition to so - called marital unions between two persons of the same s ex. The French people are out on the streets in protest – one demonstration had upwards of two million people. There has arisen in France among the people the will to resist the government and that is what we need in this country. " - Cardinal Raymond Leo B urke " We cannot go along with government policies and laws which are destroying the most innocent and defenseless among us. This will also redound to great harm to those who have grown weak through advanced age or serious illness. This is all a pattern: t he complete corruption about the truth of human sexuality which has already wrought such terrible harm to individuals and families and to our society has to be stopped. " - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke " The greatest sign of hope for me is the young people I meet who believe more than my generation and recognize how bankrupt our culture is and want the truth. They realize that this whole bill of goods we have been sold with regard to abortion, same - sex unions, and so forth is ultimately destructive. They need to have the wisdom from those of the older generation who have valiantly fought the battle for the truth, for what is truly charitable because it is true and in accord with God’s law. " - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke "Every unborn child, though unjustly cond emned to be aborted, has the face of the Lord, who even before his birth, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world." - Pope Francis “Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord" - Pope Francis "Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right." - Bishop Fulton Sheen 1953 “The ultimate aim of medicine remains t he defense and promotion of life.” - Pope Francis There is no human life more sacred than another, just as there exists no human life qualitatively more meaningful than another”. - Pope Francis "I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep t he money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else' money" - Thomas Sowell "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke "Saints fear hell, but never deny it; great sinners deny hell, but never fear it." - Bishop Fulton Sheen “Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and to obey it means, in fact, to decide in fac e of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action." - Pope Francis "Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congreg ation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy." - Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (Old Errors and New Labels) I say this because this consen t is very frequently able to be deduced from the clear and manifest testimonies of Sacred Scripture, from the consent of antiquity, that is, of the Holy Fathers, from the opinion of theologians and from other private means, all of which suffice for full in formation about the fact of the Church's consent. " Do not let yourself be overcome by discouragement if you don't visibly see your every effort crowned." - St. Padre Pio "Every unborn child, though unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of the Lord, who even before his birth, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world," "And every old person, even if infirm and at the end of his days, carries with him the face of Christ. They must not be thrown away!" - Pope Francis "Americans revere the Bible – but, by and large, they don’t read it. And because they don’t read it, they have become a nation of biblical illiterates." - George Gallup, Jr. "Why fear before it happens? Wait at least for it to happen before you become di stressed." ~St. Thérèse of Lisieux "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein "I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the ri ch, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." - Thomas Jefferson "Proclaim the t ruth and do not be silent through fear." - St. Catherine of Siena "Man is not free unless government is limited." - Ronald Reagan "Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state." - Vladimir Lenin "Blessed are those who live in n on - Islamic nations. Even in the 21st century, Muslim countries like Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan have ban on girl's education. Islam treats women as slaves. Islam gave us nothing but terrorism, jihad, madrasas, riots, and bo mb blasts. If we want a future for us, we will have to renounce Islam. Peace and Islam can't co - exist!" - Malala Yousafzai “ Just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.” - Pope John XXIII