"The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional smallscale social groups. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities. Beyond that, a technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. In modern society an individual's loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a smallscale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the system."

~Theodore Kaczynski

"The glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal."

~Sallust

“A great deal of the current cult of pleasure, of luxury, of liberty in love, and all the rest of it, appears to me to be perfectly childish; and childish in the literal sense that it is greedy without any grasp of consequences.”

~G.K. Chesterton

“The freest man on earth is he who makes himself a slave to a perfect master.”

~Paul Washer

“As the astronauts soar into the vast eternities of space, on earth the garbage piles higher; as the groves of academe extend their domain, their alumni’s arms reach lower; as the phallic cult spreads, so does impotence. In great wealth, great poverty; in health, sickness; in numbers, deception. Gorging, left hungry; sedated, left restless; telling all, hiding all; in flesh united, forever separate. So we press on through the valley of abundance that leads to the wasteland of satiety, passing through the gardens of fantasy; seeking happiness ever more ardently, and finding despair ever more surely.”

~Malcolm Muggeridge

“This is no time for believing everyone, believe only those whom you see modeling their lives on the life of Christ. Endeavor always to have a good conscience; practice humility; despise all worldly things; and believe firmly in the teaching of our Holy Mother Church."

+St. Teresa of Avila

“There is an essential bond between human freedom and truth, so that freedom which refused to be bound to the truth would fall into arbitrariness and end up submitting itself to the vilest of passions, to the point of self-destruction.”

~Pope Leo XIII

“Jesus forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because [of the Resurrection]. This is the beginning of the New Creation: a new chapter in cosmic history has opened.”

~C.S. Lewis

"Today is the day of salvation for the world... Christ is risen from the dead: arise with him. Christ returns to himself: you also must return to him. Christ has come forth from the tomb: free yourselves from the fetters of evil. The gates of hell are open and the power of death is destroyed. The old Adam is superseded, the new perfected. In Christ a new creation is coming to birth: renew yourselves."

+St. Gregory the Theologian

"His whole life was an ongoing self-abasement, an unending self-emptying, from the moment of His conception until His death and burial and beyond. In the extreme humility of His descent, God did not stop at the clouds. Neither did His journey end on earth. He went all the way to hell. In His extreme humility, He descends to the extremity of man's damnation, and stretches forth His hand to those sitting in the darkness and the shadow of death. In stretching forth His hands, He embraces all those who loved Him, and those who hated Him; those who stood by Him throughout His life, and those who denied Him. He extends His open hands to all, so that anyone who wants can take hold of Him, and He will pull them out of Hell. Lower than this, there is no place for man or God to go."

+Elder Aimilianos

"And you shall be a companion of the Deity, and a co-heir with Christ, no longer enslaved by lusts or passions, and never again wasted by disease. For you have become God: for whatever sufferings you underwent while being a man, these He gave to you, because you were of mortal mould, but whatever it is consistent with God to impart, these God has promised to bestow upon you, because you have been deified, and begotten unto immortality."

+St. Hippolytus of Rome

"Just as the Lord, putting on the body, became a man, so also we men are both deified through his flesh, and henceforth inherit everlasting life... For He was made man so that we might be made God."

+St. Athanasius

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

John 17:20-27 KJV

"Modern civilized man cannot endure cruelty, pain and suffering and is more merciful than men of the past, but this is not because he is morally and spiritually higher than they. He fears pain and suffering more than they did, he is more effeminate, less firm, patient and courageous than they; in other words he is spiritually less strong."

~Nicolas Berdyaev

"Men crave duty; a cross to bear, a cause to defend, a family to protect."

~Mælurain

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

~J.R.R. Tolkien

“Behold, the rebirth of the world itself proclaims what gifts all have received with our risen Lord. Honoring Christ's triumph after His descent to the gloomy depths of hell, the very leaves of every grove of trees and the flowers of every field all around us blossom in joy... the heavens above, the fields below, and the expansive sea duly all join in the praise of God Who has crushed the powers of hell. Behold, He who was crucified reigns as God over all things, and all created things offer praise to their Creator. Hail, thee festive day, reverenced throughout the world, on which God has conquered hell, and the stars themselves shine in His praise...“

+Saint Venantius Fortunatus

“If Jesus Christ is not risen from the dead, then why believe in Him? To be honest, I would never have believed in Him had He not risen and not, therefore, vanquished death. Our greatest enemy was killed, and we were given immortality. Without this, our world is a noisy display of revolting stupidity and despair. For neither in Heaven nor under Heaven is there greater stupidity than this world without resurrection. And there is not a greater despair than this life without immortality. There is no being in this world more miserable than a man who does not believe in the resurrection of the dead. It would have better for such a man never to have been born.”

+Saint Justin Popovic