"That economic condition in which capital belongs in bulk to a relatively small class called capitalists, and in which the large or determining mass of the citizens, being themselves without capital, are obliged to hire themselves out to these few capitalists for a wage."
-- G.K. Chesterton
A reminder that wealth in itself is not evil:
"Give thanks to God that you are among those who can do favors and not among those who need to receive them; that you need not look up to the hands of others but others to yours. Do not be rich only in your wealth but also in your piety; not only in your gold but also in your virtue, or better still, only in the latter."
-- St. Gregory Nazianzen, On the Love of the Poor
"If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me."
-- St. Joan of Arc
"There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is of course, quite a different thing."
-- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
"The sacred text was never intended to teach doctrine but only to prove it and that, if we would learn doctrine, we must have recourse to the formularies of the Church, for instance, to the Catechism and to the Creeds."
-- (Cardinal) John Henry Newman [Apologia Pro Vita Sua, 1]
"And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (emphasis added)
-- Colossians 3:17
"Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home."
-- G.K. Chesterton
(Made me laugh because of my post series "Back to Nature")
"They talk of birth control when what they really mean is less birth and no control."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"May mothers, young women and girls not listen to those who tell them that working at a secular job, succeeding in a secular profession, is more important than the vocation of giving life and caring for this life as a mother."
-- Pope John Paul II
"Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without."
-- originated from the Depression
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-- Mother Teresa
"Love is not simply an emotion. Feelings pass. They're fickle, and they often lie. Real love is an act of the will; a sustained choice that proves itself not just by what we say but by what we do."
-- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
