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"Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist."<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120, (May 15, 1931)

"Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist."<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120, (May 15, 1931)

"I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309–310}}</ref><br /> - [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]], [[One Lost Sheep]], (April 28, 1889)

"There is a tendency, apparent at this present time, to think little of the conversion of individuals and to look upon the work of the Holy Spirit upon each separate person as much too slow a business for this progressive age. We hear grand theories of a theocracy of a kind unknown to Holy Scripture - a semi-political dominion of the Lord over masses wherein the individuals are unregenerate. We listen to great swelling words about the uplifting of nations and the advancement of the race. But these lofty ideas do not produce facts, nor have they any moral power. Our "cultured" teachers are weary of the humdrum work of bringing individual souls into light. They want to do it wholesale, by a far more rapid process than that of personal salvation. They are tired of the units - their great minds dwell upon "the solidarity of the race."

 

I am bold to assert that if ever we despise the method of individual conversion we shall get into an unsound order of business altogether and find ourselves wrecked upon the rocks of hypocrisy. Even in those right glorious times when the Gospel shall have the freest course, when it shall run the most quickly and be the most extensively glorified, its progress will still be after the former manner of the conviction, conversion and sanctification of individuals. Individuals who shall each one believe and be baptized according to the Word of the Lord. I fear lest in any of you there should be even the least measure of despising the one lost sheep because of the large and philosophical methods which are now so loudly advocated. I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism. If the wanderers are to be brought in, in vast numbers, as I pray they may be, yet must it be accomplished by the bringing of them in one by one. To attempt national regeneration without personal regeneration is to dream of erecting a house without separate bricks. In the vain attempt to work in the gross, we may miss the practical result which would have followed working in detail. Let us settle it in our minds that we cannot do better than obey the example of our Lord Jesus given us in the text and go after the one sheep which has gone astray. "<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309–310}}</ref><br /> - [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]], [[One Lost Sheep]], (April 28, 1889)

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