"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

The family is more sacred than the state.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)