QUOTES

   "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

   --Lily Tomlin

 
   "In comparison with the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary.  And
    without the love of Jesus, everything else is useless." 

     --Pope John Paul II

   "I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often
convincing." 

     --Oscar Wilde

   "I don't even know what street Canada is on."

     --Al Capone

   "Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."

     --Simone de Beauvoir, The Coming of Age, 1970

   "Whoever desires to please God, to make any progress in spiritual life,
   and at length to arrive at perfection, must as a first step detest all
   heresies and schisms, adhering firmly to the Church Catholic and
   subjecting himself humbly to her." 

     --Louis de Blois, A Short Rule, 16th century.

   "Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion,
   by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a
   connection with the other part. If it does not all combine to convey some
   general view of education, it is not education at all. And the modern
   educationalists, the modern psychologists, the modern men of science all
   agree in asserting and reasserting this--until they begin to quarrel with
   Catholics over Catholic schools." 

     --G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man.

   "I do not maintain that the general level of religious life was higher
   than at other times or that the state of the Church was healthier, still
   less that scandals were rarer or more evils less obvious. What one can
   assert is that the middle ages more than at other periods in the life of
   our civilization the European culture and the Christian religion were in a
   state of communion: the highest expressions of medieval culture, whether
   in art. literature or in philosophy, were religious, and the greatest
   representatives of medieval religion were also the leaders of medieval
   culture." 

     --Christopher Dawson, Medieval Essays.

    "Maybe people are led to think, the Church will change its position on
   this or that or the other thing. The 'maybes' of conditionality produce
   conditional Catholics and conditional Catholics are deprived of the joys
   of unqualified discipleship." 

     --Richard John Neuhaus, "To propose the Truth: The Catholic Moment
       Requires Five Transformations", Crisis, April 1994.

   "If the law permits abortion and euthanasia, why are we surprised that
   there are wars?"
 
     --Mother Teresa

   "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have
   been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in
   numbers, wealth, and power as no other- nation has ever grown. But we have
   forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in
   peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly
   imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these things were
   produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with
   unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity
   of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made
   us." 

     --Abraham Lincoln