Added Quotes

I have updated my quotes with several new quotes. Since the come up randomly, you would have you hit refresh a couple hundred times before they all are sure to come up. In that spirit of saving you the trouble, here are the latest additions. A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope. -Pope John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -Pope John Paul II The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. -Thomas Jefferson One cannot build up if what disturbs the foundation has not been destroyed. In other words, the sweet words of good preaching are sown in vain if the thorns of self-love have not first been plucked from the hearts of the listeners. -Pope St. Gregory the Great It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. -Mother Theresa In our own time, moreover, those who have trusted excessively in the progress of the natural sciences and the technological arts have fallen into an idolatry of temporal things and have become their slaves rather than their masters. -Vatican II - Apostolicam Actuositatem Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. -Albert Einstein (attributed) Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein (attributed) If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. -Albert Einstein Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. -William Shakespeare Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or willful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator. -Vatican II - Gaudium Et Spes

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!

Don't forget to where your green!!!!! Have a wonderful St. Paddy's Day!!! "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it." -Pope John Paul II

Catholic Quote - St. Theresa of Avila

The picture is not one of mine, I got it from boglewood.com. The statue is titled The Ecstasy of S. Teresa di Avila. "Believe me, the safest thing is to will only what God wills, for He knows us better than we know ourselves, and He loves us." - St. Teresa of Avila in Interior Castle

C. S. Lewis Quotes and Election Perspective

Perhaps I am an optimist. Perhaps I am just delusional. While I am disappointed in some of the election results, I am not as upset as others I have read online. Maybe it is because I am not enamored with either party, and would be disappointed no matter what the result in one way or another. Regardless, it is what it is. Life goes on. I have been reading C. S. Lewis lately, and a couple of quotes in Mere Christianity may be worth thinking about regarding society and the recent elections. "You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society." "If individuals live only 70 years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilisation, which may last for a thousand years is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or a civilisation, compared with his, is only a moment." I take two points here. One, let's stop worrying about the state quite as much as we do - it is far less important than individuals. The state is important only to the degree that it can help or hurt individuals on their eternal journey. We need to do what we can here, and move on to the more important focus. Second, we should focus more on developing the kind of person that can create a good society. Elections are good, politics are fine, but the values we care about should be important every day. We have to live them, convince others that these values are true, and help others to live them - not through law or coersion, but by convincing them of their veracity. Making laws is not the best way to change hearts. But changing hearts is a good way to change laws. Maybe we need to do more to change hearts. Tags: Politics, Catholic, Christian, Quotes

Today's Catholic Quote

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Saint Thomas Aquinas Tags: Catholic, Quote