Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.