Elizabeth Ann Seton

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) was an American Catholic educator, founder of the Sisters of Charity of New York. She was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975, becoming the first canonized saint born in the United States.

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church, for if faith is so important to our salvation I will seek it where true faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God himself.

Journal for Amabilia Filicchi, 1805

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Thomas Aquinas

Let us be neither dogs that do not bark nor silent onlookers nor paid servants who run away before the wolf. Instead let us be careful shepherds watching over Christ’s flock.

Boniface of Crediton

If all values are only subjective, so is the value of tolerance.

Peter Kreeft

The real world randomly conspired to murder humans all the time, and they just called it weather.

D. Scott Johnson

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out . . . are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.

Will Rogers

Behind many contemporary affirmations of the freedom of love is a false rationalization, for although love involves freedom, not all freedom involves love.

Fulton Sheen

A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty, were inseparable from civilization.

Anaïs Nin

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Terence

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

Dwight Morrow

There was far more courage to the square mile in the Middle Ages, when no king had a standing army, but every man had a bow or sword.

G. K. Chesterton

I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgement.

Paul the Apostle

All good things arrive unto them that wait—and don’t die in the meantime.

Mark Twain

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up . . . [of] signs.

Tom Wolfe

Pregnancy involves three humans: A woman, a man, and a fetus. Any discussion that doesn’t take reality into account should be dismissed.

Alex Berezow

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ to be resisted or lessened by means other than legal prohibition now promote it as a social good—something that law and government should not only tolerate but embrace and even promote.

Robert George

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Salman Rushdie

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