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St. Robert Bellarmine, 1616: “Affliction is everywhere to be found, everywhere to be met with, at home, on a journey, in the forum… for in all places the wicked oppress the good.” (De Aeterna felicitate sanctorum)
“And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, it repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noe found grace before the Lord.” (Genesis 6:5-8)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “Divine scripture testifies that an equal punishment is due to those who commit an evil and to those who assent to it [Rom. 1:32].” (To The Clergy and Laity of Germany, 1075)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “Let your mind meditate daily upon the lessons of the holy scriptures by which the assertions of the heretics are confuted and the faith of holy church is defended against the members of the devil who are trying to overthrow the Christian religion by their manifold devices.” (To The Clergy, Monks, and Laity of Vallombrosa, 1073)
“… when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven: and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror, and became as dead men. And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified: He is not here; for he is risen, as he said.” (Matthew 28:1-6)
“As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, ‘Peace to you!’ But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.’ And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them. Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.’ Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy...” (Luke 24:36-53)
“Then the soldiers of the governor taking Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto him the whole band; And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, king of the Judeans. And spitting upon him, they took the reed, and struck his head.” (Mt. 27:27-30)
“And they took Jesus, and led him forth. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JUDEANS. This title therefore many of the Judeans did read: because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Judeans; but that he said, I am the King of the Judeans. Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.” (John 19:16-22)
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “… inasmuch as our good works pass through the hands of Mary, they receive an augmentation [increase] of purity, and consequently of merit, and of satisfactory and impetratory value. On this account they become more capable of solacing the souls in purgatory and of converting sinners than if they did not pass through the virginal and liberal hands of Mary. It may be little that we give by our Lady; but, in truth, if it is given without self-will and with a disinterested charity, that little becomes very mighty to turn away the wrath of God and to draw down His mercy.” (True Devotion to Mary #172)
St. Ephraim (350): “… we are anointed in Baptism, whereby we bear His seal.”
James 4:7- “Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.”
St. Jerome (390): “God made us with free-will, neither are we drawn by necessity to virtue or vice; else where there is necessity [and not free-will], there is neither damnation nor reward.”
“Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that which endures unto everlasting life…” (John 6:27)
St. Robert Bellarmine, 1616: “The Christian faith proposes many things to be believed, which are so beyond all understanding that it is most difficult to give our consent to them; and yet we are commanded to believe them so firmly that we should be prepared (if necessary) to die a thousand deaths rather than deny one article of faith.” (De Aeterna felicitate sanctorum)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “Sacred Scripture enumerates a number of other torments which will afflict the damned [besides hellfire]. One of these is the ‘worm,’ to which the Scriptures refer frequently… most theologians explain it metaphorically as the remorse of conscience which will afflict the damned in the fire and darkness of hell. Forever will they have imprinted on their memories the results of their sins; forever will they repeat the words ascribed to the damned in the book of Wisdom: ‘We have erred from the way of truth, we wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction and have walked through hard ways. What hath pride profited us? Or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?... Such as these the sinners said in hell’ (Wisdom 5:6-14).”
Barnabas (A.D. 70): “… we descend into the water full of sins and foulness, and we come up bearing fruit in our heart…”
St. Isaac Jogues (1630): “Well must we use the time that is accorded us that we must do that in our life which we would have wished that we did at the moment of our death.”
“… He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16)
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “In the chronicles of St. Francis we read that the saint saw in ecstasy a great ladder ascending into heaven, at the top of which stood the Blessed Virgin and by which it was shown him he must ascend to reach heaven. There is another related in the chronicles of St. Dominic. There was an unfortunate heretic near Carcassonne, where St. Dominic was preaching the Rosary, who was possessed by a legion of fifteen thousand devils. These evil spirits were compelled, to their confusion, by the command of our Blessed Lady, to avow many great and consoling truths touching devotion to the Blessed Virgin; and they did this with so much force and so much clearness, that it is impossible to read this authentic account, and the eulogy which the devil made, in spite of himself, of devotion to the most holy Virgin Mary, without shedding tears of joy, however lukewarm we may be in our devotion to her.” (True Devotion to Mary #42)
St. Irenaeus (180): “… giving the disciples the power of regenerating in God, He said to them: ‘Go teach all nations, and baptize… Just as dry wheat without moisture cannot become one dough or one loaf, so also, we who are many cannot be made one in Christ Jesus, without the water from heaven…Our bodies achieve unity through the washing… our souls, however, through the Spirit. Both, then, are necessary.”
“There was another woman in Aljustrel [Portugal] who never lost an opportunity to revile the three [Fatima] children as liars and impostors… Jacinta said, ‘We must ask Our Lady to convert this woman. She has so many sins which she does not confess that she will go to Hell!’ They offered some penances for her. And never again did she give them an unkind word.” (Our Lady of Fatima, pp. 122-123)
“Fr. Hoecken has left us an account of a journey Fr. De Smet [the Apostle of the Rocky Mountains] made to the Sioux [heathen], in the depth of winter, through snow from fifteen to twenty feet deep. He was mounted on a lame horse; his feet, nose, and ears were frostbitten, his legs were stiffened with rheumatism, and he was starving. At night the storms raged and wolves howled around the camp. Yet Fr. De Smet’s soul overflowed with joy: ‘My one desire is, with the help of God’s grace, to bear suffering and fatigue as long as it is within my power to endure them. I place my hopes in the bosom of my Savior and await my reward from His bounty, not in this life, but in the life to come.’ Such heroism and devotion yielded abundant fruit. The Christians increased rapidly in numbers among both the Indians and the American Settlers.” (The Life of Fr. De Smet, p. 223)
When St. Thomas Aquinas chose to become a Dominican (c. 1245) he met with “severe opposition from his family… St. Thomas was literally captured by his brothers and imprisoned in the family castle… The most dramatic episode of his imprisonment, came when his brothers sent a temptress to his quarters. As soon as St. Thomas saw that the girl’s intention was to seduce him, he ran to the fireplace, seized a burning stick and, brandishing it, chased her from the room with it. Then he traced a cross on the wall with the charred wood. When he fell asleep soon afterward, he dreamed that two Angels came and girded him about the waist with a cord, saying: ‘On God’s behalf we gird you with the girdle of chastity, a girdle which no attack will ever destroy.’” (33 Doctors of the Church, p. 367)
“I am the Lord and I change not.” (Malachias 3:6)
St. Basil the Great (360): “Much time had I spent in vanity, and had wasted nearly all my youth acquiring the sort of wisdom made foolish by God. Then once, like a man roused from deep sleep, I turned my eyes to the marvelous light of the truth of the Gospel, and I perceived the uselessness of the ‘wisdom… of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away’ (1 Cor. 2:6). I wept many tears over my miserable life and I prayed that I might receive guidance to admit me to the doctrines of the true religion.”
“Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world were formed, from eternity and to eternity thou art God.” (Psalm 89:1-2)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “St. Augustine says that whoever does not shun dangerous occasions will soon fall into a precipice… The example of the unhappy Solomon should make us all tremble. At first he was most dear to God, and even inspired of the Holy Ghost, but by the love of strange women he was in his old age led into idolatry. Nor should his fall be a subject of wonder; for, as St. Cyprian says, to stand in the midst of flames and not to burn is impossible.”
St. Justin the Martyr (155): “… they are led by us to a place where there is water; and there they are reborn in the same kind of rebirth in which we ourselves were reborn… in the name of God… they receive the washing of water. For Christ said, ‘Unless you be reborn, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ The reason for doing this we have learned from the apostles.”
Pope Leo XIII (1896): “There is no duty which Christ and His Apostles more emphatically urged by both precept and example than that of prayer and supplication to the Almighty. The Fathers and Doctors in subsequent times have taught that this is a matter of such grave necessity, that if men neglect it they hope in vain for eternal salvation. Everyone who prays finds the door open… ask, seek, knock (Mt. 7:7).” (Fidentem piumque animum #2)
Psalm 139:4- “Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it completely.”
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18)
Saint Bede the Venerable (c. 720): “Just as all within the Ark were saved and all outside of it were carried away when the flood came, so when all who are pre-ordained to eternal life have entered the Church, the end of the world will come and all will perish who are found outside.” (Hexaemeron)
“One night the sacristan saw St. Thomas Aquinas praying in the chapel and saw him elevated several cubits in the air. The sacristan heard a voice from the crucifix speaking to Thomas, ‘Well hast thou written of me, Thomas, what reward wilt thou receive?’ ‘None other than Thyself, O Lord,’ replied the saint.”
Pope Innocent III (1215): “If any bishop is negligent or remiss in cleansing his diocese of the ferment of heresy, then when this shows itself by unmistakable signs he shall be deposed from his office as bishop and there shall be put in his place a suitable person who both wishes and is able to overthrow the evil of heresy.” (Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 3)
St. Peter Canisius (16th century): “It is a shocking thing that Christians are not marvelously ashamed, who pollute themselves with filthy lust in the sight of God and His angels, whereas they have consecrated in Baptism their bodies and members as pure temples to the Holy Ghost, and to Christ our Lord.”
“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done…” (Isaiah 46:8-10)
St. Ambrose (390): “True repentance is to cease to sin.”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “… our adversaries… are destitute of arguments, and rich in calumnies…” (De Iustificatione, Book I, Chap. 3.)
“Augustine says that the woman [Eve] could not have believed the words of the serpent, had she not already acquiesced in the love of her own power, and in a presumption of self-conceit.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. I, Q. 94, A. 4, Reply to Obj. 1)
Pope Pius XI (1937): “Since Christ… finished the task of Redemption, and by breaking up the reign of sin merited for us the grace of being the children of God, since that day no other name under heaven has been given to men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).” (Mit brennender sorge #17)
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “It is better to lose something honorably than to possess it dishonestly. The Trinity knows this, as does my outspoken preaching (which also caused the wicked to hate me)…”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “This [true] devotion [to Mary] consists, then, in giving ourselves entirely to our Lady, in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her. We must give her (1) our body, with all its senses and its members; (2) our soul, with all its powers; (3) our exterior goods of fortune, whether present or to come; (4) our interior and spiritual goods, which are our merits and our virtues, and our good works, past, present and future… and we must do it, further, without pretending to, or hoping for, any other recompense for our offering and service except the honor of belonging to Jesus Christ through Mary and in Mary…” (True Devotion to Mary #121)
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “… deadly envy did not rest, envy which destroys all things, whether openly or in secret.”
On the incredible transformation in Mexico following the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: “The nine million baptisms between the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the death of Juan Diego and Bishop Zumarraga in 1548 created large Christian communities throughout most of central Mexico… The churches were decorated by Indian artists with frescoes and sculptures – a universe removed from the horrors they had painted and carved in the days of the Hummingbird Wizard [the satanic god of the Aztecs].” (Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 4, p. 625)
Mark 4:16-17: “… these are the ones sown on rocky ground… who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.”
St. Augustine (415): “Anyone who would say that infants who pass this life without participation in the Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly goes counter to the preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church…”
St. Francis Xavier (1544): “Those words of our Lord, He that is not with Me is against Me, will make you understand how destitute we here are of any friends to aid us in bringing this people to Jesus Christ. But we must not despond, for God at the end will render unto each one according to his deserts, and it is very easy for Him, when He pleases, to accomplish by means of a few what seemed to require the work of many… And how severe are the punishments which God at last inflicts on His enemies, we see well enough, as often as we turn our mind’s eye to the inextinguishable furnace of hell, whose fires are to rage throughout all eternity for so many miserable sinners.”
Pope Pelagius II, epistle (1) Quod ad dilectionem, 585: “If anyone, however, either suggests or believes or presumes to teach contrary to this faith, let him know that he is condemned and also anathematized according to the opinion of the same Fathers… Consider therefore the fact that whoever has not been in the peace and unity of the Church, cannot have the Lord.” (Denz. 246)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “God, says St. James, resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). The Lord has promised to hear the prayers of all… [But] The proud he hears not; according to the Apostle, he resists their petitions. But to the humble he is liberal beyond measure… ‘Give me, O Lord’, exclaims St. Augustine, ‘the treasure of humility’… St. Teresa relates of herself, that the greatest graces that she received from God were infused into her soul when she humbled herself most before the Lord in prayer.”
Pope Julius III, Council of Trent (1551): “If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or figure, let him be anathema.” (Can. 1 on the Eucharist)
Padre Pio once told one of his spiritual children: “In all the free time you have, once you have finished your duties of state, you should kneel down and pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament or before a crucifix.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 19), Aug. 15, 1832: “Here surely belong the infamous and wild plans of the Waldensians, the Beghards, the Wycliffites, and other such sons of Belial, who were the sores and disgrace of the human race; they often received a richly deserved anathema from the Holy See.”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “Saint Bonaventure said (in his Psalter) that whoever neglected Our Lady would perish in his sins and would be damned… If such is the penalty for neglecting her, what must be the punishment in store for those who actually turn others away from their devotions!” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 30.)
Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas (# 19), Dec. 11, 1925: “When once men recognize, both in private and public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
“You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:27-28)
Pope Leo XIII (1880): “all [societies of the Catholic Church] have the same purpose in view, namely, by the diffusion of the Gospel light to bring the largest possible number of those outside the Church to the knowledge and worship of God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent.” (Sancta Dei civitas #5)
Our Lady of Fatima (1917): “I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next month, and to continue praying the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary… because only she [Our Lady of the Rosary] can help you.” (July 13)
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 5), June 29, 1896: “The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ, the Lord – leaving the path of salvation they enter on that path of perdition… He who observes not this unity observes not the law of God, holds not the faith of the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation.”
“… and his disciples came to him, saying: Explain to us the parable of the cockle in the field. Jesus made answer, and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:36-42)
Pope Pius XI (1930): “… [since] men do not reap the full fruit of the Sacraments which they receive after acquiring the use of reason unless they cooperate with grace, the grace of matrimony will remain for the most part an unused talent hidden in the field unless the parties exercise these supernatural powers and cultivate and develop the seeds of grace they have received.” (Casti Connubii #41)
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