The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Children are all foreigners.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Saints need sinners.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.