QUOTATION: Spiritual Progress

If things always went wrong, no one could endure it; if they always went well, everyone would become arrogant.

--St. Bernard, Letters, 149

QUOTATION: Suffering and Consolations

O you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if you knew how pleasing to God is suffering, and how much it helps in acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to bear the Cross of the Lord.

--St. John of the Cross

QUOTATION: Spiritual Warfare

Christians are...born for combat, whereof, the greater the vehemence, the more assuredly, God aiding, the triumph.

--Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christian

QUOTATION: Voting for pro-death candidate always wrong

There is no element of the common good, no morally good practice, which a candidate may promote and to which a voter may be dedicated, which could justify voting for a candidate who also endorses and supports the deliberate killing of the unborn, euthanasia or the recognition of a same-sex relationship as a legal marriage. The respect for the inviolable dignity of innocent human life and for the integrity of marriage and the family are so fundamental to the common good that they cannot be subordinated to any other cause, no matter how good it may be.


-- Archbishop Raymond Burke, The Teachings of the Catholic Church, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, May 8, 2009

QUOTATION: The Primacy of Peter

Where Peter is, therein must be the Church.

--St. Ambrose