Quotes

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him (G.K. Chesterton)

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. (Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, +1690)

When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the[…]

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink (G.K. Chesterton)

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. (G.K. Chesterton)

I look to all of you, brothers and sisters of every state of life, to you, Christian families, to you, the sick and elderly, and to you, young people: confidently take up the Rosary once again. Rediscover the Rosary in the light of Scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your[…]

By your work you show what you love and what you know. (Saint Bruno of Cologne, +1101)

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities (G.K. Chesterton)

Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatise. You may kill me if that is what you want. To die for God – such is my will (Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, +1637)

I bind myself in this way so that for the rest of my life I will have neither permission nor freedom to refuse opportunities of dying and shedding my blood for you (Saint Jean de Brebeuf, +1649)