Quotes/Sayings

Christ 9

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

-Pope St. Pius V

All the strength of Satan’s reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics.

-Pope St. Pius X

He that sees another in error, and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

-Pope Leo I

Not to oppose error, is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.

-Pope Felix III

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true socialist.

-Pope Pius XI

Socialists, Communists and Nihilists…strive to uproot the foundations of civilized society.

-Pope Leo XIII

His empire includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith; so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.

-Pope Leo XIII

St. Thomas maintains: ‘Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.’ To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe.

-Pope Leo XIII

Paganism is as old as human history. In one sentence, paganism is a culture of untruth.

-Fr John Hardon S.J.

If anyone according to wicked heretics in any manner whatsoever, by any word whatsoever, at any time whatsoever, or in any place whatsoever illicitly removes the boundaries firmly established by the holy Fathers of the Catholic Church … in order to seek for novelties and expositions of another faith … and, briefly, if it is customary for the most impious heretics to do anything else, should anyone through diabolical operation crookedly and cunningly act contrary to the pious preachings of the orthodox teachers of the Catholic Church, that is, its papal and conciliar proclamations, to the destruction of sincere confession unto the Lord our God, and persist without repentance unto the end: let such a person be condemned forever, and let all the people say: So be it! So be it!

-Pope St. Martin I

Every secret society is framed and adapted to make men the enemies of God and of His Church, and to subvert faith…The one aim…is to uproot Christianity, and the Christian social order as well as the Church from the world – in fact, to eradicate the name of Christ and the very Christian idea from the minds and hearts of men.

-Mgr. George F. Dillon

Thomistic philosophy is the remedy to Modernism!

-St. Pius X

“Who has lost and who has won in the struggle — the one who keeps the premises [buildings] or the one who keeps the Faith? The Faith obviously. That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved in the churches from old time until now may not be lost in our days,… rouse yourselves, brethren,… seeing them now seized upon by aliens.

-St. Athanasius, (371 during the Arian Heresy)

If I have against me all the Bishops, I have with me all the Saints and Doctors of the Church

-St. Thomas Aquinas

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

-Bl. Pope Pius IX

The nature of the Catholic faith is such that nothing can be added to it, nothing taken away. Either it is held in its entirety or it is rejected totally. This is the Catholic faith which, unless a man believes faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.

-Pope Benedict XV

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

-St. Hippolytus of Rome

This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.

-Pope St. Agatho the Wonderworker

Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!

-Pope Clement XIII

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

-St. Irenaeus of Lyons

The devil has always attempted, by means of heretics, to deprive the world of the Mass, making them precursors of antichrist, who before anything else, will try to abolish and will actually abolish the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as a punishment for the sins of men, according to the prediction of Daniel, ‘And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice.

-St. Alphonsius Maria Liguori

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

-St. Vincent of Lerins

Fight to the death for Truth, and the Lord God will do battle for you.

-Sirach 4:33

Tv Solvs Sanctvs