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“… 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)
“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.”
St. Boniface: Every bishop should be “instructing the people… forbidding pagan rites, divination, fortune-telling, soothsaying, charms, incantations, and all… vileness.” (A.D. 747)
“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. Amphilochius [on the Christ Child] (c. 390): “This Child whom you see before you has laid the foundations of the world (Heb. 1:2), He has perfected the heavens (Is. XI. 22). It is He who has shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth… Esteem not lightly this Child, because He is a child. He Who is a child, is coeternal with the Father.”
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: “… as for those who by their works have denied the Christian faith, bid them that they should repent, and that they should be covered in shame to live in the devil’s slavery.” (April, 1076)
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.”
Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (# 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.”
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. 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.”
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.”
“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)
“Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.” (Jeremias 17:5)
“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)
“Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.” (Hebrews 3:12)
St. Ambrose (c. 375): “I hate the religion of the Neros.”
Pope St. Gregory VII: “… when opportunities are found, the deceit of the Devil suggests to men with especial 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)
St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “True devotion to our Lady is disinterested; that is to say, it inspires the soul not to seek itself but God only…” (True Devotion to Mary #110)
Pope St. Damasus I, Council of Rome, 382, Can. 23: “If anyone thinks well of the Father and the Son, but does not rightly esteem the Holy Spirit, he is a heretic, because all heretics who think erroneously about the Son [of God] and the [Holy] Spirit are found in the perfidy of the Jews and the pagans.”
Pope Gregory III, A.D. 739: “… it is written that small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads on to life.”
“The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.” (Nahum 1:2)
St. Peter Canisius (16th century): “Certain virtues are therefore called ‘Cardinal’, because they are as it were the foundation and hinges of all the rest; and as the door upon the hinges, so the whole course of honest life consists of them, and the whole frame of good works seem after a sort to depend upon them. They are accounted four in number: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.” (Summa Doctrinae Christianae)
St. John Eudes (c. 1660): “The greatest evil existing today is heresy, an infernal rage which hurls countless souls into eternal damnation.”
“St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: ‘This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.’” (St. Alphonsus)
Apoc. 2:10 “Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.”
“The love of Jesus is faithful and enduring. He that cleaves to creatures shall fall with them.” (Imitation of Christ)
Pope Pius IX (1872), on the Church in Chaldea: “The damage brought to your regions by the Nestorian heresy is so great that like a wild beast from the forest it will destroy the Lord’s vineyard which once flourished there and devour it.” (Quae in Patriarchatu #1)
St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “Blessed Alan De La Roche says that a nun who always had a great devotion to the Holy Rosary appeared after death to one of her sisters in religion and said to her: ‘If I were allowed to go back into my body, to have the chance of saying just one single Hail Mary – even if I said it quickly and without fervor – I would gladly go through the sufferings that I had during my last illness all over again, in order to gain the merit of this prayer.’” (The Secret of the Rosary, pp. 49-50)
Pope Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede (# 15), Dec. 8, 1892: “Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.”
St. Ambrose (385): “The Egyptian people were plunged into the Red Sea, but the Hebrew people went over. Moses passed through; but Pharao was cast down headlong [into the waters], because the heavier weight of his sins plunged him downwards. In the same way do sacrileges cast down headlong into the lake of burning fire those who fling their proud insults in the face of God.”
Pope Pius VI (1775): “For in recent days, the dangerous times foretold by the Apostle Paul have clearly arrived, when there will be ‘men who love themselves, who are lifted up, proud, blasphemous, traitors, lovers of pleasure instead of God, men who are always learning but never arriving at the knowledge of the truth, possessing indeed the appearance of piety but denying its power, corrupt in mind, reprobate about the faith.’”
St. John of Damascus (8th cent.): “… it depends upon ourselves whether we are to persevere in virtue and be guided by God who invites us to practice it; or whether we are to abandon virtue, which is to become attached to vice and be guided by the Devil, who, without forcing us, is inviting us to practice vice.” (On The Orthodox Faith, Book 2, Chap. 30)
St. John of Damascus (8th cent.): “For evil is nothing else but the absence of good, precisely as darkness is the absence of light.” (On The Orthodox Faith, Book 2, Chap. 30)
St. Ephrem (c. 392): “Alas! Of what kind is that place of wailing and of gnashing of teeth… at which even Satan shudders? What kind of place is it, where the unsleeping worm dieth not? What dread misery to be sent into outer darkness?... Then shall those already in the midst of the torments cry out with pleading voices, and there will be no one to speak for them to the Lord, and they shall not be heard. Then they will learn that the things which happened to them in this life were as nothing; and those that here seemed sweet, were more bitter than gall and wormwood.”
Pope Pius X, Our Apostolic Mandate (# 36), on the “Sillon”, Aug. 25, 1910: “… there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion; it is a proven truth, a historical fact.”
St. Francis Xavier (1552): “For my part, it does not astonish me that the bonzes [the false, pagan religious leaders in Japan] are covered with so many and so great sins. They are a set of men who have the devil in place of God, and it is a matter of necessity that they should commit crimes innumerable and abominable… I earnestly beg all who read this letter of mine… to pray that Our Lord Jesus Christ will give us the victory over these two demons Xaca and Amida [the false gods of the Japanese], and over the others like them, especially since at present their credit is waxing weak at Amanguchi, not without the special providence of God.”
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “The baptism of John had not the power to forgive; this being the gift of the baptism that was given later [the Sacrament of Baptism]; for it was in this later baptism that we were buried together with Christ, and our old man was at the same time crucified with Him; and before the Cross nowhere hath forgiveness appeared, for this is everywhere attributed to His Blood.”
Concerning St. Isaac Jogues and the Missionaries to the North American savages, c. 1642: “The deadliest obstacles, the missionaries found, to their efforts to Christianize the Hurons were the multitudinous forms of superstition, sorcery and devil worship… Controlling, and an essential part of this system of preternatural influences were the sorcerers… All of the sorcerers claimed a preternatural origin and boasted of being in communication with the spirits. The missionaries discovered that many of their practices were trickery and charlatanism, but attributed others to the direct intervention of the devil. The cabins and huts where they held their séances were oftentimes violently shaken; they themselves would stuff live coals into their mouths without being burned or would thrust their arms into boiling water without being scalded. The rites and ceremonies they conducted were so indecent and revolting that they surpassed unaided human invention.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 116-117)
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, On God the Creator of all things, Can. 1: “If anyone shall have denied the one true God, Creator and Lord of visible and invisible things: let him be anathema.” (Denz. 1801)
St. Bernard (c. 1130): “And so they perish. In this wide and spacious sea so perish those unhappy ones, who, clutching hard at transitory things, lose what is enduring, of which had they taken hold they might have escaped [Hell] and saved their immortal souls.”
Pope Pius VII: (1800): “There has never been an enemy of the Christian religion who was not simultaneously at wicked war with the See of St. Peter…” (Diu satis #6)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “… the way of a man is not in his own hand and the steps of a man are guided by the Lord [Prov. 20:24]…” (Dec. 7, 1074)
“Christian burial is refused to suicides (this prohibition is as old as the fourth century)…” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 72)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “For the present life is the time for doing good; after death there is but judgment and justice; for it is written: in hell who shall confess thee (Ps. 6:6).”
St. Bernard (c. 1130): “For Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning (Is. 14:12), aspired in his mind to be like the Most High… but being cast headlong down he was ruined… Then suddenly, I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven (Luke 10:18).”
“He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both are abominable before God.” (Proverbs 17:15)
Pope Leo XIII (1884): “… the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be regarded as merely equal to other religions.” (Encyclical, Humanum Genus)
“Love not the world, nor those things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.” (1 John 2:15)
St. Jerome (c. 380): “My words are spoken to the successor of the Fisherman, to the disciple of the Cross. As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but Your Blessedness [Pope St. Damasus], that is, with the Chair of Peter. For this I know is the rock on which the Church is built. This is the house where alone the Paschal Lamb can rightly be eaten. This is the Ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails.”
St. Louis De Montfort (c.1710): “True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of the Blessed Virgin, particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience [to God], her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelical sweetness and her divine wisdom. These are the ten principal virtues of the most holy Virgin.” (True Devotion to Mary #108)
“The Christian religion was declared the religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius in 392 A.D., and pagan worship was condemned as high treason.”
Pope St. Gregory VII: “For if we were prepared silently to fall in with the princes and powerful men of your land in reigning according to their own desire and trampling underfoot the righteousness of God, then we might assuredly have from them friendships, gifts, obeisances, praise, and magnificent expressions of esteem. Because this is in no way compatible with the place in which we are and with the office which we hold, there is nothing which, under His protection, might separate us from the charity of Christ; for it is safer for us to die than to forsake His law, or for the glory of the world to respect the persons of the ungodly...” (Oct. 26, 1074)
St. Thomas Aquinas: “Christ likewise by His Passion fulfilled the ceremonial precepts of the [Old] Law, which are chiefly ordained for sacrifices and oblations, insofar as all the ancient sacrifices were figures of that true sacrifice which Christ by dying offered for us. Hence it is written (Col. 2:16-17): Let no man judge you in meat or drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ’s, for the reason that Christ is compared to them as a body is to a shadow.” (Summa Theologiae, Pt. III, Q. 47, A. 2, Reply to Obj. 2)
St. Bruno (c. 1070): “He hath a demon within him who persists in any grave sin.”
Pope Clement V 1311-1312: “We entertain in our heart a deep longing that the Catholic faith prosper in our time and that the perverseness of heresy be rooted out of Christian soil. We have therefore heard with great displeasure that an abominable sect of wicked men, commonly called Beghards, and of faithless women, commonly called Beguines, has sprung up in the realm of Germany. This sect, planted by the sower of evil deeds, holds and asserts in its sacrilegious and perverse doctrine the following errors…” (Decree # 28, Council of Vienne)
“Nicholas of Nice, speaking of the fire of Hell, says that nothing on earth could give an idea of it. He adds that if all the trees of the forests were cut down, piled into a vast heap and set on fire, this terrible pile would not be a spark of Hell.”
“[St.] Ephrem lived among people whose nature was attracted by the sweetness of poetry and music. The heretics of the second century after Christ used these same allurements to skillfully disseminate their errors.” (Pope Benedict XV, Principi Apostolorum #12, Oct. 5, 1920)
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