"The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty by a wall of erudition."

"Beauty has been stolen from the people and sold back to them under the concept of luxury."

~Sir Roger Scruton

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

~C.S. Lewis

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

~Charles Baudelaire

"The battle for the soul is as brutal as the battles of men."

~Arthur Rimbaud

"We do not want a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world."

~G.K. Chesterton

"A religion that doesn't interfere with the secular order, will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it."

~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the strength of my soul, whom I have tried to set forth in all his beauty, and who has always been, and always will be most beautiful is – the truth."

~Leo Tolstoy

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."

~Khalil Gibran

"Your life on earth is narrowed everywhere. Everything betrays you: people, wealth, the pleasures of the senses, even your own body will abandon you. All the elements of nature deceive you. So, see to cleave only to God, for only He is love."

+Saint John of Kronstadt

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Faith does not set aside natural duties, but perfects and strengthens them.” — Johann Albrecht Bengel

“Sweet is war to those who know it not.”

~Pindar

"Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound, the less it is blind."

~G.K. Chesterton

"Hate what the world seeks, and seek what it avoids."

+St. Ignatius of Loyola