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St. Anselm: “If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few… Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer… that they may attain everlasting blessedness.”
St. Fulgence, The Rule of Faith, (526): “Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all the pagans but also all the Jews and all the heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.”
St. Francis Xavier: “… one is what he is before God… and nothing more, even if… everyone else thinks otherwise.”
Pope Pius X: “… it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to innovate anything touching on the substance of the sacraments…” (Ex quo, Dec. 26, 1910)
St. Alphonsus: “Man’s life is short: he cometh forth as a flower, and is destroyed’ (Job 14: 1,2). The Lord commanded Isaias to preach this very truth: ‘Cry,’ He said to him, ‘all flesh is grass… indeed the people is grass. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen’ (Is. 40:6-7). The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.”
Pope Martin V: “This holy synod… declares, defines and decrees that the said John Wyclif was a notorious and obstinate heretic who died in heresy, and it anathematizes him and condemns his memory. It decrees and orders that his body and bones are to be exhumed, if they can be identified among the corpses of the faithful, and to be scattered far from a burial place of the church…” (Council of Constance, Session 8, “Condemnation of Wyclif,” May 4, 1415)
St. John Chrysostom: “… it is not possible for a virtuous person who travels by the straight and narrow path and follows Christ’s commands to enjoy the praise and admiration of all people, so strong is the impulse of evil and the resistance to virtue.” (Homily 23 on Genesis)
“Lucia found Jacinta sitting alone, still and very pensive, gazing at nothing. ‘What are you thinking of, Jacinta?’ ‘Of the war that is going to come. So many people are going to die. And almost all of them are going to Hell.’” (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, p. 94)
Proverbs 15:21- “Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.”
Pope Gregory XVI: “But later even more care was required when the Lutherans and Calvinists dared to oppose the changeless doctrine of the faith with an almost incredible variety of errors. They left no means untried to deceive the faithful with perverse explanations of the sacred books…” (Inter Paecipuas #4, May 8, 1844)
Pope St. Gregory the Great (595): “As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.”
Pope Pius X, Communium rerum (#18), April 21, 1909, concerning 11th century England: “Then indeed was it necessary to fight for the altar and the home, for the sanctity of public law, for liberty, civilization, sound doctrine, of all of which the Church alone was the teacher and the defender among the nations…”
St. Louis De Montfort: “… the greatest saints, the souls richest in graces and virtues, shall be the most assiduous in praying to our Blessed Lady, and in having her always present as their perfect model for imitation and their powerful aid for help.” (True Devotion to Mary #46)
“And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them, committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.” (Judges 2:16-17)
St. Basil, Letter 257, 4th century: “Remember that it is not the multitude who are being saved, but the elect of God. Be not then affrighted at the great multitude of the people who are carried here and there by winds like the waters of the sea.”
Pope Leo XIII: “The Church in respect of its unity belongs to the category of things indivisible by nature, though heretics try to divide it into many parts.” (Satis Cognitum #4, June 29, 1896)
“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparations for their crimes and console your God.” (The Angel to the three children of Fatima)
Pope Eugene IV: “The Holy Roman Church, founded by the voice of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes, and preaches one true God, omnipotent, unchangeable, and eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost… These three persons are one God, and not three gods, because of the three there is one substance, one essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity… It [the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects and anathematizes all who think opposed and contrary things, and declares them to be aliens from the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” (Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra)
[The Appearance of the Angel to the Fatima Children – 1916]: “Then, rising up, the Angel took the Chalice and the Host, and kneeling on the flat rock, held the white disk before him, saying: ‘Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.’” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 42.)
Pope Gregory XVI: “We are thankful for the success of apostolic missions in America, the Indies, and other faithless lands… They fearlessly fight the Lord’s battles against heresy and unbelief by private and public speech and writings… They search out those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to summon them to the light and life of the Catholic religion.” (Probe Nostis #6, Sept. 18, 1840)
St. Alphonsus: “David calls the happiness of this present life a dream of one awakening: ‘As the dream of them that awake’ (Ps. 72:20)… The goods of this world appear great, but in fact are nothing; like sleep, they last but a little while, and then all vanishes.”
Pope St. Leo IX: “The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon Peter or Cephas, the son of John who first was called Simon, because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would never be overcome.” (In terra pax hominibus, Sept. 2, 1053, Denz. 351)
St. Louis De Montfort: “All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics and others, who hate our Blessed Lady or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother.” (True Devotion to Mary #30)
Pope Pius IX: “If anyone shall have said that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certitude by those things which have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema.” (First Vatican Council, Against Atheism, Session 3, On Revelation, Can. 1)
Fr. De Smet: “New priests are to be added to the Potawatomi Mission, and my Superior, Father Verhaegen gives me hope that I will be sent. How happy I would be could I spend myself for the salvation of so many souls, who are lost because they have never known truth!” (Jan. 26, 1838 - Fr. De Smet was a great missionary to the American Indians)
Pope Eugene IV: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.” (Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439)
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “For there are three who give testimony – Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. (1 Jn. 5:4-8) In other words, the Spirit of Sanctification and the Blood of Redemption and the water of Baptism. These three are one and remain indivisible. None of them is separable from its link with the others.” (Dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon, 451)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “And thus is perfectly fulfilled that assurance of the Truth, by which we learn that ‘narrow and steep is the way that leads to life’; and whilst the breadth of the way that leads to death is crowded with a large company, the steps are few of those that tread the path of safety. And wherefore is the left road more thronged than the right, save that the multitude is prone to worldly joys and carnal goods? And although that which it desires is short-lived and uncertain, yet men endure toil more willingly for the lust of pleasure than for love of virtue. Thus while those who crave things visible are unnumbered, those who prefer the eternal to the temporal are hardly to be found.” (Sermon 49, 5th century)
Fr. De Smet: “I have often remarked that many of the children seem to await baptism before winging their flight to heaven, for they die almost immediately after receiving the Sacrament.” (Dec. 18, 1839 - Fr. De Smet was the Apostle of the Rocky Mountains, the great missionary to the American Indians)
“Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day. For His wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee.” (Ecclesiasticus 5:8-9)
Pope Paul III: “If anyone shall say that baptism is optional, that is, not necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.” (Council of Trent, Canon 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism)
St. Louis De Montfort: “If devotion to the most holy Virgin Mary is necessary to all men simply for working out their salvation, it is still more so for those who are called to any special perfection…” (True Devotion to Mary #43)
Pope Leo XII: “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum #14, May 5, 1824)
“So shall it be at the end of the world, the angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all these things? They say to Him: Yes.” (Matthew 13:49-51)
Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 46: “… remember that your works of mercy will only then profit you, and your strict continence only then bear fruit, when your minds are unsoiled by any defilement from wrong opinions. Cast away the arguments of this world’s wisdom, for God hates them, and none can arrive by them at the knowledge of the Truth…”
St. Alphonsus: “My brother, in this picture of death behold yourself, and what you will one day become: ‘Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.’ Consider that in a few years, perhaps months or days, thou wilt become rottenness and worms. This thought made Job a saint: ‘I have said to rottenness, Thou art my father; to worms, My mother and my sister’ (Job. 17:14).”
Second Council of Constantinople, Canon 1, 553: “If anyone does not confess one nature or essence of Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and one power and authority, a consubstantial Trinity to be worshipped as one Godhead in three hypostases or persons, let such a one be anathema.”
“And the Lord said to Abraham: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake… What if there be five less than fifty just persons?... And He said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty. Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? I will not do it, if I find thirty there…What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty. I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And the Lord said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. And the Lord departed… And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And He destroyed these cities, and all the country about…” (Genesis, Chapters 19-20)
Pope Benedict XIV: “Surely it is not in vain that the Church has established the universal prayer which is offered up for the faithless Jews from the rising of the sun to its setting, that the Lord God may remove the veil from their hearts, that they may be rescued from their darkness into the light of truth.” (A Quo Primum # 4, June 14, 1751)
St. John Eudes (17th century): “Experience, as well as faith, teaches us that the wicked shall find no peace. But on the contrary: those who love and serve God shall enjoy peace in abundance, which shall render their lives a thousand times sweeter and more agreeable than are the lives of those who follow their own inordinate inclinations.”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart (Acts 2:37)… Therefore the Gospel not only consoles but even terrifies. For compunction is born from terror.” (De Justificatione, Book 4, Chap. 2)
Pope Benedict XIV, Allatae Sunt (#5), July 26, 1755: “Certainly, that man would have to be declared utterly inexperienced in ecclesiastical history who did not know of the mighty efforts of the Roman Pontiffs to bring the Orientals into unity since the fatal schism of Photius; he laid hold of the See of Constantinople when the lawful Patriarch St. Ignatius was forcefully ejected in the time of Pope St. Nicholas I [AD 858].”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Part I-II, Q. 103, A. 4: “… in canonical Scripture… it is criminal to believe that something is false…”
St. Basil, Letter 210: “… neither can a soul preoccupied with cares of this life, and darkened with the passions of the lust of the flesh, receive the rays of the Holy Ghost.”
Pope Benedict XIV: “Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (Chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: ‘Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.’ We too have forbidden this practice in the same words in Our oft-repeated constitution Etsi Pastoralis, sect. 6, no. 21.” (Allatae Sunt #29, July 26, 1755)
Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 40: “For there are no works of power, dearly-beloved, without… trials… there is… no contest without a foe, no victory without conflict. This life of ours is in the midst of snares, in the midst of battles; if we do not wish to be deceived, we must watch: if we want to overcome, we must fight.” (5th century)
“And the angels [who became devils], who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighboring cities, in like manner having given themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.” (Jude, verses 6-8)
St. Alphonsus: “Whoever once enters Hell shall never quit it for all eternity. This thought caused David to tremble, saying: ‘Let not the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me’ (Psalm 68:16).”
St. Louis De Montfort: “There has been no name given under heaven, except the name of Jesus, by which we can be saved.... Every one of the faithful who is not united to Him as a branch to the stock of the vine, shall fall, shall wither and shall be fit only to be cast into the fire. Outside of Him there exists nothing but error, falsehood, iniquity, futility, death and damnation.” (True Devotion to Mary, #61)
“… eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him.” (1 Cor. 2:9)
St. Francis De Sales: “And to say that the Church has failed - what else is it but to say that all our predecessors are damned. Yes, truly; for outside the Church there is no salvation, out of this Ark everyone is lost.” (The Catholic Controversy, p. 59)
St. Louis De Montfort: “In the heavens Mary commands the angels and the blessed. As a recompense, God has empowered her and commissioned her to fill with saints the empty thrones from which the apostate angels fell by pride.” (True Devotion to Mary, #28)
Pope Pius XI, Rappresentanti in terra (#22), Dec. 31, 1929: “… this work of the Church in every branch of culture is of immense benefit to families and nations which without Christ are lost, as St. Hilary points out correctly: ‘What can be more fraught with danger for the world than the rejection of Christ?’”
St. John Eudes (17th century): “If you [while in mortal sin] perform any good works, they merit no recompense in Heaven; for those whom mortal sin deprives of sanctifying grace, can merit nothing for Heaven, so long as they remain in that state. Their labors and sufferings, which might satisfy for the pain due to their past sins, and acquire for them, at the same time, new degrees of grace and merit, cannot produce these happy effects, because they lose their rewards through sin.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Q. 14, A. 13: “Hence all things that are in time are present to God from eternity, not only because He has the types of things present with Him, as some say; but because His glance is carried from eternity over all things as they are in their presentiality. Hence it is manifest that contingent things are infallibly known by God, inasmuch as they are subject to the divine sight in their presentiality; yet they are future contingent things in relation to their own causes.”
St. Basil, Letter 204: “Judge righteous judgment [John 7:24]. This precept is one of those most necessary for salvation.”
Pope Clement V: “Besides, a unique baptism regenerating all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully confessed by all just as ‘one God and one faith’ [Eph. 4:5], which celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit we believe to be the perfect remedy for salvation for both adults and children.” (Council of Vienne, 1311-1312)
“‘Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’…” (Jeremiah 23:24)
Pope St. Siricius (A.D. 385): “… we also say that to infants who will not yet be able to speak on account of their age or to those who in any necessity will need the holy stream of baptism, we wish succor to be brought with all celerity, lest it should tend to the perdition of our souls if the saving font be denied to those desiring it and every single one of them exiting this world lose both the Kingdom and life. Whoever should fall into the peril of shipwreck, the incursion of an enemy, the uncertainty of a siege or the desperation of any bodily sickness, and should beg to be relieved by the unique help of faith, let them obtain the rewards of the much sought-after regeneration in the same moment of time in which they beg for it. Let the previous error in this matter be enough; [but] now let all priests maintain the aforesaid rule, who do not want to be torn from the solidity of the apostolic rock upon which Christ constructed His universal Church.” (Decree to Himerius on the Necessity of Baptism)
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