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Ecclesiasticus 28:22- “Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.”
Pope St. Leo the Great: “Defend the Church in unshaken peace against the heretics, that your empire also may be defended by Christ’s right hand.” (Letter 44, Oct. 13, 449, to Emperor Theodosius II)
Concerning the 19th century Jesuit missionaries in the wilderness of America: “In the first excursions made by Fathers Van Quickenborne and Christian Hoecken, they were often lost for days at a time, and would traverse the immense prairies in every direction in a vain endeavor to discover their whereabouts. These plains resembled a vast sea: as far as the eye could see one beheld nothing but a limitless stretch of green pasture and blue sky: deer, chamois, and roebuck were plentiful; prairie-chicken and other wild game abounded. Wolves and bears creeping from their lairs to eat sheep terrified both man and beast. But even in such straits they were not abandoned by divine Providence. At nightfall the Fathers would often throw the reins on the horse’s neck, letting him take his own direction, and before long would find themselves in sight of some habitation. Once an immense and strange dog sprang in front of their horses, and, making a path through the high grass, brought them to the home of a Catholic, where they rested and were refreshed, and, to their great consolation and that of their host, they celebrated the Divine Mysteries.” (The Life of Fr. De Smet, p. 78.)
Proverbs 15:8- “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord…”
St. Alphonsus (1755): “Worldlings shun solitude, and with good reason; for in solitude they feel more acutely the remorse of conscience, and therefore they go in search of the conversations and tumults of the world, that the noise of these occupations may stifle the stings of remorse.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Nuper ad nos, March 16, 1743, Profession of Faith: “This faith of the Catholic Church, without which no one can be saved, and which of my own accord I now profess and truly hold…”
St. Alphonsus (1755) on detachment from relatives: “If attachment to relatives were not productive of great mischief Jesus Christ would not have so strenuously exhorted us to estrangement from them… a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household (Mt. 10:36)… Relatives are [very often] the worst enemies of the sanctification of Christians...”
Fr. William Jurgens: “… we must stress that a particular patristic text [a particular statement from a father] is in no instance to be regarded as a ‘proof’ of a particular doctrine. Dogmas are not ‘proved’ by patristic statements, but by the infallible teaching instruments of the Church. The value of the Fathers and writers is this: that in the aggregate [that is, in totality], they demonstrate what the Church believes and teaches; and again, in the aggregate [that is, in totality], they provide a witness to the content of Tradition, that Tradition which is itself a vehicle of revelation.”
On the 2nd Commandment: “… there are not wanting those who are so blinded by the darkness of error as not to dread to blaspheme His name, whom the Angels glorify. Men are not deterred by the Commandment laid down from shamelessly and daringly outraging His divine majesty every day, or rather every hour and moment of the day.” (Catechism of Trent)
St. Athanasius (4th century): “When He [Christ] extended his hands upon the cross, He overthrew ‘the ruler of the power of the air, who is at work in the sons of disobedience’ (Eph 2:2) and cleared the way to heaven for us.”
2 Paralipomenon 19:2- “Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord.”
Pope Pius XI (1923): “… the heresies begotten by the [Protestant] Reformation. It is in these heresies that we discover the beginnings of that apostasy of mankind from the Church, the sad and disastrous effects of which are deplored, even to the present hour, by every fair mind.” (Rerum omnium pertabationem #4, Jan. 26, 1923)
“Another characteristic of the saints that Francisco began to manifest after the apparition of the Lady (1917) was the love of solitude. One May morning he left the two girls (Jacinta and Lucia) with the sheep, and climbed to the top of a high rock. ‘You can’t come up here!’ he called down. ‘Leave me alone!’… Lucia and Jacinta began to run after butterflies. By the time they wearied of this they had forgotten all about Francisco, and they thought no more of him until they realized that they were hungry, and that it must be long past the time for their meal. There Francisco was, still lying motionless on the top of the rock…. ‘What have you been doing all this time?’ ‘I have been thinking of God, who is so sad because of so many sins,’ the boy answered seriously. ‘If I could only give Him joy!’” (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, pp. 61-62)
Pope Benedict XIV, Apostolica (# 6), June 26, 1749: “The Church’s judgment is preferable to that of a Doctor renowned for his holiness and teaching.”
“Our Lady revealed to Blessed Alan De la Roche that no sooner had St. Dominic begun preaching the Rosary than hardened sinners were touched and wept bitterly over their grievous sins… everywhere that he preached the Holy Rosary such fervor arose that sinners changed their lives and edified everyone...” (St. Louis De Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, p. 66.)
“Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.” (Exodus 23:2)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “Whosoever loves God loves solitude; there the Lord communicates himself more familiarly to souls, because there he finds them less entangled in worldly affairs, and more detached from earthly affections… St. Eucherius relates that a certain man, desirous of becoming a saint, asked a servant of God where he should find God. The servant conducted him to a solitary place, and said: ‘Behold where God is found.’”
St Augustine (395): “… God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.”
(1918): “Jacinta [of Fatima] became ill a few days after Francisco. One day Lucia found her strangely elated. ‘Look, Lucia!’ she said. ‘Our Lady came to see us here, and she said that she is coming very soon to take Francisco to heaven. And she asked me if I still wanted to convert more sinners and I said yes. Our Lady wants me to go to two hospitals. But not to be cured. It is to suffer more for the love of God, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.’” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 161)
Pope St. Innocent (414): “But that which Your Fraternity asserts the Pelagians preach, that even without the grace of Baptism infants are able to be endowed with the rewards of eternal life, is quite idiotic.”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “The Blessed Virgin, St. Bernard says… retains and keeps the saints in their plenitude, so that it may not diminish. She prevents their virtues from being dissipated, their merits from perishing, their graces from being lost, the devil from harming them...” (True Devotion to Mary #174)
St. John Chrysostom (392): “Weep for the unbelievers; weep for those who differ not a whit from them, those who go hence without illumination, without the seal! [Baptism]… They are outside the royal city… with the condemned. ‘Amen, I tell you, if anyone is not born of water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “The chronicles of Saint Francis tell of a young friar who had the praiseworthy habit of saying the Crown of Our Lady (the Rosary) every day before dinner. One day for some reason or other he did not manage to say it. The refectory bell had already been rung when he asked the Superior to allow him to say it before coming to the table, and having obtained permission he withdrew to his cell to pray. After he had been gone a long time the Superior sent another Friar to fetch him, and he found him in his room bathed in a heavenly light facing Our Lady who had two angels with her. Beautiful roses kept issuing from his mouth at each Hail Mary; the angels took them one by one, placing them on Our Lady’s head, and she smilingly accepted them. Finally two other friars who had been sent to find out what happened to the first two saw the same lovely scene, and Our Lady did not go away until the whole Rosary had been said.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 26)
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 9), Jan. 6, 1928: “For this reason it is that all who are truly Christ’s believe, for example, the Conception of the Mother of God without stain of Original Sin with the same faith as they believe the mystery of the August Trinity, and the Incarnation of our Lord just as they do the infallible teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff…”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “… the first sin of our first parents [was] not infidelity but nothing other than pride.” (De Amissione Gratiae et Statu Peccati, Book 3, Chap. 4)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “… show that you… are zealous in the observance of the Christian religion… so that after the sea of this life you may avail to come tranquilly to the harbor of perpetual calm and eternal blessedness, by the gift of the Redeemer Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, God throughout all eternity. Amen.” (June 1076)
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “We must not confuse devotion to the Blessed Virgin with devotions to other saints, as if devotion to her were not far more necessary than devotion to them, and as if devotion to her were a matter of supererogation.” (True Devotion to Mary #39)
Pope St. Damasus I, Council of Rome, 382, Can. 6: “We anathematize those who say there are two Sons, one eternal, and the other after the assumption of flesh from the Virgin.”
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor: Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles, who know not God… For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.” (1 Thess. 4:3-7)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 380): “A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas sodomites destroy the soul inside the body.”
St. Aloysius (c. 1585): “A want of due attention to mental prayer is the reason why some have so little fervor in the service of God, and give so great scope to their passions.”
Jesus said: “Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me” (John 14:1).
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them; and they were judged every one according to their works. And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire… And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the pool of fire.” (Apocalypse 20:12-15)
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312, Decree #26: “… it is a grave offense not to work for the extermination of heresy when this monstrous infection requires action...”
St. John Eudes (17th century): “For how is it possible that Christians should fall into such disorders, or lead such scandalous lives as so many do, if they only bore in mind that they had made a contract with God, in which they had promised never to enter into sin, and to maintain inviolable fidelity to the Divine Majesty; if they only thought that in violating this promise they should lose the grace which God had given them in Baptism, and forfeit the right which they had acquired to the inheritance of eternal life, and become again the children and slaves of Satan.”
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 5: “… our Catholic faith, ‘without which it is impossible to please God’ [Heb. 11:6].”
St. Thomas Aquinas (A.D. 1274): “Unbelief… arises from pride, through which man is unwilling to subject his intellect to the rules of faith…” (Summa Theologiae Pt. II-II, Q. 10, A. 1, Reply 3)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “He who does not speak up against wicked men in consideration of his office consents to them; and he who does not do away with things that should be cut out commits them.”
St. John Eudes (17th cent.): “Bad example is the great stumbling block in the way of virtue. It is the poison which infects the life-blood of society, and causes thousands of souls to perish daily.”
St. Thomas Aquinas (A.D. 1274: “It is written (Isa. Xi. 2): The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding… Understanding implies an intimate knowledge, for intelligere (to understand) is the same as intus legere (to read inwardly). This is clear to anyone who considers the difference between intellect and sense, because sensitive knowledge is concerned with external sensible qualities, whereas intellective knowledge penetrates into the very essence of a thing, because the object of the intellect is what a thing is… Consequently man needs a supernatural light to penetrate further still into what it cannot know by its natural light: and this supernatural light which is bestowed upon man is called the gift of understanding.” (Summa Theologiae, Pt. II-II, Q. 8, A. 1)
“… fear not the words of a sinful man, for his glory is dung and worms: Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his earth, and his thought is come to nothing.” (1 Machabees 2:62-63)
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215: “And surely no one can accomplish this sacrament [the Eucharist] except a priest who has been rightly ordained…”
St. Peter Chrysologus (430): “He who would play with the devil can never enjoy the company of Jesus.”
“Fear of hell is not supernatural.” – Condemned by Pope Alexander VIII
St. John Chrysostom (387): “What can there be that is worse than hell? Yet nothing is more profitable than the fear of it! For the fear of hell gains for us the crown of the kingdom.”
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 7), Jan. 6, 1928, speaking of heretics: “There are some, indeed, who recognize and affirm that Protestantism, as they call it, has rejected, with a great lack of consideration, certain articles of faith and some external ceremonies, which are, in fact, pleasing and useful, which the Roman Church still retains. They soon, however, go on to say that the Church also has erred, and corrupted the original religion by adding and proposing for belief certain doctrines which are not only alien to the Gospel, but even repugnant to it.”
St. Boniface, A.D. 747: Every bishop should be “instructing the people… forbidding pagan rites, divination, fortune-telling, soothsaying, charms, incantations, and all… vileness.”
Pope Eugene IV, Sept. 7, 1434: “Moreover, we trust that with God’s help another benefit will accrue to the Christian commonwealth; because from this union, once it is established, there is hope that very many from the abominable sect of Mahomet will be converted to the Catholic faith.”
“St. Philip Neri was in his twenty-ninth year when one day he was seized with such a vehemence of divine charity that two of his ribs broke, thus making room for the action of the heart to respond freely to the intensity of the love of the soul. The fracture never healed; it caused a protrusion which was distinctly observable; and, owing to this miraculous enlargement of the region of the heart, Philip was enabled to live fifty years more, during which time he loved his God with a fervor and strength which would do honor to one already in heaven.” (Dom Prosper Guéranger)
St. Peter Canisius: “Sin (as St. Augustine witnesses) is a will to retain or obtain that which Justice prohibits, and from which it is in man’s power to abstain.” (Summa Doctrinae Christianae)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “For you know that the glory and vain delight of this world are shifting and deceptive. You know that all flesh daily hastens to its end and that the certainty of death spares neither the willing nor the unwilling. You know that kings in like condition to paupers will be dust and ashes and that we shall all come to the strict scrutiny of the future Judgment…” (Jan. 25, 1075)
St. Francis Xavier (1542): “I told him that God, most Faithful and True, held the misbelievers and their prayers in abomination, and so willed that their worship, which He rejected altogether, should come to nought.” (Sept. 18)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “For if the truth be not exposed to contradiction among men, virtue would receive no fitting confirmation. But the contest that is permitted, makes clear the light of truth, to the soul that perseveres.”
“For when the twelve Apostles, after receiving by the Holy Ghost the gift of tongues, divided among themselves the world they had to evangelize, the most blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostolic order, was sent to the Capital of the Roman Empire, in order that the light of truth, which had been revealed for the salvation of all nations, might the more effectively flow from the head itself into the whole body of the world.” (Dom Prosper Guéranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Vol. 3, p. 319)
St. Gregory Nazianz (c. 380): “I myself have called upon the name of Christ at times, and scarcely have I uttered that august name, when the demons scatter in clamorous and headlong flight, shouting aloud the power and the might of the Immortal God.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Commissum Divintus (# 8), May 17, 1835: “There is nothing which belongs more to the Church and there is nothing Jesus Christ wanted more closely reserved for its shepherds than the dispensation of the sacraments He instituted.”
Padre Pio (1914): “Dear God! If all were aware of your severity as well as your tenderness, what creature would be so foolish as to dare to offend you?” (Letter to Padre Agostino, May 6)
“Forasmuch then as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he [Jesus] also himself in like manner partook of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil.” (Heb. 2:14)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “… when opportunities are found, the deceit of the Devil suggests to men with special subtlety things that are most strongly forbidden.” (Sept. 10, 1074)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “‘Cursed is the man who withholds his sword from blood’, that is… who holds back the word of preaching from the rebuking of carnal men.” (Sept. 10, 1074)
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