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

A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.
-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

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‘

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.-C. S. Lewis

I was at this time of living, like so many Atheists or Anti-theists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.-C. S. Lewis

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.-G. K. Chesterton

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.-Samuel Rutherford

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -William Shakespeare
is one of my favorites and has been for quite some time.

Here’s a Shakespeare quote I have pinned to my cube:

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essense, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep. - William Shakespeare.

I contemplated naming my blog either “Fantastic Tricks” or “The Angels Weep” because of that qoute. Not sure why I didn’t go through with it.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice.-St. Theresa of Avila

Oh my sisters, how little one should think about resting, and how little one should care about honours, and how far one ought to be from wishing to be esteemed in the very least if the Lord makes His special abode in the soul.-St. Theresa of Avila

By your doing things which you really can do, His Majesty will know that you would like to do many more and thus He will reward you exactly as if you had won many souls for Him.-St. Theresa of Avila

… the Lord does not look so much at the magnitude of anything we do as at the love with which we do it.-St. Theresa of Avila