"When it is considered how short is the span of human life, does it really matter to a man whose days are numbered what government he must obey, so long as he is not compelled to act against God or his conscience?"
--Saint Augustine of Hippo, City of God, Book V, Chapter 17
"The questions you have within you, the important ones that concern your
dreams, affections, greatest desires, hopes and the meaning of life: do not
keep them to yourselves but bring them to Jesus. Call him by name, as he
does with you. Address your questions to him, entrusting to him your
secrets, your loved ones, your joys and concerns, and also the problems
of your nations and the world. Then you will discover something new and
surprising: that when you ask the Lord, when you open your hearts to him
each day, when you really pray, your interior lives are transformed."
--Pope Francis, Address to Youth, Lisbon, Portugal, August 3, 2023
"I am convinced that the destruction
of transcendence is actually the mutilation of man from which all the other
sicknesses spring."
--Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), 1927--2022