If We Wish To Keep Our Rights, Then We Must Keep Our God

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers – and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God. – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Servant of God

Human Law Is Law Only By Virtue Of Its Accordance With Right Reason

‎Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason, and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

Evil People In Power See The Normalizing Of Homosexuality, Contraceptives, Sterilization, Pornography, And Abortion As Useful Policies To Reduce World Population Growth

Because evil people in power see the normalizing of homosexuality, contraceptives, sterilization, pornography and abortion as useful policies to reduce world population growth. They don't believe people can control themselves sexually so they encourage sexual activity in forms that don't give birth to children. They believe that there's only so much wealth/resources to go around that only a few are entitled to, thus more people must die and the rest become controllable slaves. - K. Mitchell

Without Truth There Is No Social Conscience And Responsibility

Without truth, without trust and love for what is true, there is no social conscience and responsibility, and social action ends up serving private interests and the logic of power. - Pope Benedict XVI

Man Finds Himself Betwixt A Twofold Gravitational Force

The Fathers of the Church maintained that human beings stand at the point of intersection between two gravitational fields. First, there is the force of gravity which pulls us down – towards selfishness, falsehood and evil; the gravity which diminishes us and distances us from the heights of God. On the other hand there is the gravitational force of God’s love: the fact that we are loved by God and respond in love attracts us upwards. Man finds himself betwixt this twofold gravitational force; everything depends on our escaping the gravitational field of evil and becoming free to be attracted completely by the gravitational force of God, which makes us authentic, elevates us and grants us true freedom. - Pope Benedict XVI

It’s When You Hold Me That I Start Unfolding

Who can hold the stars and my weary heart? Who can see everything? I’ve fallen so hard...sometimes I feel so far but not beyond your reach. I could climb a mountain, swim the ocean or do anything...but it’s when you hold me that I start unfolding and all I can say is Hallelujah, hallelujah. Whatever’s in front of me, help me to sing hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Whatever’s in front of me, I’ll choose to sing hallelujah. The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day, spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play. And only you can see the good in broken things. You took my heart of stone and you made it home...and set this prisoner free. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Whatever’s in front of me, help me to sing hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Whatever’s in front of me, I’ll choose to sing hallelujah. - Bethany Dillon

The Catholic Church: Freedom's Defender

Eric Giunta: "I would also like to share one of my favorite passages from historian H. W. Crocker III's "Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church" -- A 2000 Year History":

"What was most at stake in the Reformation was freedom. The Catholic Church was freedom's defender, and not meely by defending Europe against the Turks. It was the Church that nurtured the artistic freedom of the Renaissance and the Baroque. It was the Protestants who smashed religious art as idolatry and sensualism. It was the Church that sponsored the literary freedom of the humanists, and the Protestants who condemned it as paganism. It was the Church that claimed to be a universal, independent, and superior court of appeals to the edicts of kings, while the Protestants made religion a department of government to be controlled by princes (in Germany), or the city council (in Geneva), or the monarch (in England and Scandinavia). There is, in fact, a much underappreciated libertarian streak within the Catholic Church. It was seen in Pope Gregory IX's alliance with republicans and the capitalist city-states of Italy against the emperor Frederick II; it was seen in Renaissance Catholicism, to the scandal of the Protestants; and it was seen most especially in the conflict between the Church and the Tudor dynasty in England."

By Deviating From the Moral Law Man Violates His Own Freedom

The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything. It is false to maintain that man, "the subject of this freedom," is "an individual who is fully self-sufficient and whose finality is the satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly goods." Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural conditions that are needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often disregarded or violated. Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the moral life and involve the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin against charity. By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth. - CCC

There is Not a Person in This Room I Would Not Sacrifice my Life For

If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through Hell with a gasoline can. There is not a person in this room I would not sacrifice my life for. - Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen B. West (newly elected Congressman of FL District 22)

All the Evil in the World is Due to Lukewarm Catholics

The evil that has been allowed to spread in the Church is the problem. That is why that insane baby killer is sitting in the White House. Because the Church did not speak up like it should have. This is why there is a Congress running wild, destroying your futures and your children's futures, and your children's children's future and saddling this country with a ridiculous debt...and all doing it in the name of God...Justice...Peace?! This is happening because the Church did not do what it is supposed to be doing. All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics. - Michael Voris

If you Give Government the Power to Supply you all of Your Needs, Then you Give Government the Power to Take Everything Away

If the government has the power to supply all of your needs, then it also has the power to take everything away from you. It's not rocket science. - Micahel Fanelli

‎Our Constitution was Made Only for a Moral and Religious People

‎Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

We are too Timid to Endure Responsibilities

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

The Last Best Hope of Man on Earth

‎We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. - Ronald Reagan

Truth is a Discovery of the One Who Never Fails Us

‎Truth is not an imposition. Nor is it simply a set of rules. It is a discovery of the One who never fails us; the One whom we can always trust...seeking truth we come to live by belief because ultimately truth is a person: Jesus Christ...authentic freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in - nothing less than letting go of self and allowing oneself to be drawn into Christ's very being for others. - Pope Benedict XVI