Among wolves and robbers

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. - Thomas Jefferson

In general, the art of government consists of making as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

I am not worthy to untie the straps of His sandal

By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind, but the prudent care not to overvalue ourselves. - Nathaniel Crew

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. - T. S. Eliot

We never seem to have enough

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. - George Horne

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Holiness

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life. - Jerry Bridges

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection. - Eugene Kennedy

The Wisdom of St. Ambrose

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse. - St. Ambrose

Three for chaity

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. - Richard Baxter

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday. - Isaiah 58:10

 And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’ - Matthew 25: 40

Double the politics

Politics is an excellent career, unless you get caught. - Robert Half

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx