"The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else."
St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 29
St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 29
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"In such a crux there remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the Catholic Church. Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish."
Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith
Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith
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"Who is there so demented, who, though not able to overtake, does not at least earnestly desire to follow those whom no force could deter from defending the faith of their ancestors, no threats, no blandishments, not life, not death, not the palace, not the Imperial Guards, not the Emperor, not the empire itself, not men, not demons?— whom, I say, as a recompense for their steadfastness in adhering to religious antiquity, the Lord counted worthy of so great a reward, that by their instrumentality He restored churches which had been destroyed, quickened with new life peoples who were spiritually dead, replaced on the heads of priests the crowns which had been torn from them, washed out those abominable, I will not say letters, but blotches of novel impiety, with a fountain of believing tears, which God opened in the hearts of the bishops?"
St. Vincent of Lérins, Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies V.xiii
St. Vincent of Lérins, Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies V.xiii
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“This is no time for believing everyone, believe only those whom you see modeling their lives on the life of Christ. Endeavor always to have a good conscience; practice humility; despise all worldly things; and believe firmly in the teaching of our Holy Mother Church."
St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
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"Those rabid dogs barking against Christ; let their followers learn—those who think that the church has had no philosophers, no orators, no men of learning; let them learn the number and quality of the men who founded, built, and adorned the church and let them stop accusing our faith of such rustic simplicity, and recognize instead their own ignorance."
St. Jerome, On Illustrious Men, Preface, paragraph 7
St. Jerome, On Illustrious Men, Preface, paragraph 7
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"You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all."
St. Therese of Lisieux, Letter to Abbe Belliere, June 21, 1897
St. Therese of Lisieux, Letter to Abbe Belliere, June 21, 1897
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"It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because they have no standard outside of themselves by which to measure their times. If there is no fixed concept of justice, how shall men know it is violated? Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world; the great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen."
Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West
Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West
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"And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house."
St. Augustine of Hippo, Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus, Chapter 4
St. Augustine of Hippo, Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus, Chapter 4
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"If it is dangerous to be negligent in steering a ship in the midst of the sea, how much more perilous to abandon it in a storm with the waves running high; and even so the Church which makes its way through the ocean of this world like a great ship, buffeted in this life by diverse waves of temptation, is yet not to be abandoned."
St. Boniface, Epistle to Archbishop Cuthbert of Canterbury VIII
St. Boniface, Epistle to Archbishop Cuthbert of Canterbury VIII
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