"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

“There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already born for us, and does not now bear with us.”

Pope St. John Paul II

"I have never spared heretics, and have endeavored in every possible manner to make the enemies of the Church my own enemies."

St. Jerome, The Dialogue Against the Pelagians, Preface, paragraph 2

"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

"Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society."

St. Francis of Assisi

"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

"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Questiones Disputatae de Veritate, Question 14, Article 12.

"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

"Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find."

Ven. Fulton Sheen, Peace of Soul

"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

"In the case of Tertullian we praise his great talent, but we condemn his heresy. In that of Origen we admire his knowledge of the Scriptures, but nevertheless we do not accept his false doctrine. As to Didymus, however, we extol both his powers of memory, and the purity of his faith in the Trinity, while on the other point in which he erred in trusting to Origen we withdraw from him. The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are."

St. Jerome, Apology Against Rufinus, Book III, sec. 27

Let them not flatter themselves if they think they have Scripture authority for their assertions, since the devil himself quoted Scripture, and the essence of the Scriptures is not the letter, but the meaning. Otherwise, if we follow the letter, we too can concoct a new dogma and assert that such persons as wear shoes and have two coats must not be received into the Church. (Matt 10:10)

St. Jerome, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians, sec. 28

“In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto III

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"An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed.... He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity."

Pope St. Felix III, as quoted in Leo XIII’s encyclical Inimica Vis

"Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?"

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on the Gospel of John

"Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin."

Pope Ven. Pius XII, Radio Message

"Pride does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others."

St. Thomas More, Utopia, Chapter 9

"While the tongue through shame often pours not forth all its wickedness at once, the heart having no human witness, fearlessly gives birth to whatever evils it will."

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 42 on Matthew

"If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education."

St. John Bosco