Fortune has an inclination to be ill to the ill

Then let the greedy merchant fear 

For his ill-gotten gain;

And pray to gods that will not hear,

While the debating winds and billows bear

His wealth into the main.

-- John Dryden, The Twenty-ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace, Englished

Care not for any man

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being, besides the supreme; because no other being can make a right judgment of us, and because we can procure no considerable advantage from the approbation of any other being.

-- Joseph Addison

Yes, the New Testament is full of ideas torn from their eschatological milieu and misused by utopians, communists and other ideologues

But academically rigorous this is not.

Wisconsin priest says Catholics can't be Democrats, rips into Father James Martin SJ, says 60m aborted stand at gates of heaven barring their entry

Father James Altman, here:

“Here is a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period,” Altman said in the video posted Aug. 30. “The party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches, so just quit pretending that you’re Catholic and vote Democrat. Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.”

A million dollars won't make any difference to your $1 Labor Day hamburger, except that it might buy you new teeth with which to eat a $10 steak instead

 

 

 

 

Suffice it then, thou money god, quoth he

That all thine idle offers I refuse;

All that I need I have: what needeth me

To covet more than I have cause to use?

-- Edmund Spenser