"Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers."

-- Herbert Kaufman

#Father Quotes #Son Quotes #Men Quotes

“I am a happy man. I've had a good life.”
“The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.”

Source : Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.23, Ignatius Press
“Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.”
“Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth, because that violates the moral law of God and is profoundly wrong. His words to take care of the poor are not addressed to government, they are addressed to us.”
“Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”
“Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.”
“I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.”
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change”

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