“Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.”

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.