Quotes about State

Temptation, then, in general, is any thing, state, way, or condition that, upon any account whatsoever, has a force or efficacy to seduce, to draw the mind and heart of a man from its obedience, which God requires of him, into any sin, in any degree of it whatsoever.

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

Those precious words, Holy and Spiritual, have been perverted for us through the greed of the preachers, in that they have denominated the state of priests and monks holy and spiritual, and have thus scandalously robbed us of these noble, precious words, as also of the word Church, since with them the Pope and Bishops are the Church, while they do according to their own pleasure whatever they choose, in virtue of the declaration

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

For if the world were without godly men and those who are to be saved, it would not stand; and when the last saints are living, the Last Day will soon come. For God has no concern for the state and the household except for the sake of the church.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.