"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

"Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain."

St. Anthony of the Desert

"One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains assistance; but one who has not a sense of his need, will never have a plain and clear sense of the benefit."

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 22 on the Gospel of John

"Just as painters in working from models constantly gaze at their exemplar and thus strive to transfer the expression of the original to their own artistry, so too he who is anxious to make himself perfect in all the kinds of virtue must gaze upon the lives of the saints as upon statues, so to speak, that move and act, and must make their excellence his own by imitation."

St. Basil the Great, Letter II

“A society which is insensible to upright intellectual and moral principles and relies only on those of commercial advantage does not deserve to be counted among civilized societies much less among Christian ones.”

Pope Ven. Pius XII

"We belong to the Church militant; and she is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights. No rank of the clergy is spared; and the faithful — their number is legion — inspired by the valiant endurance of their shepherds and fathers in Christ, stand firm, ready to suffer and die, as the martyrs of old, for the one true Faith taught by Jesus Christ."

Pope Ven. Pius XII, Address for the Inauguration of the New Headquarters of the Pontifical North American College

"I was gazing toward the Circus Maximus, toward the Palatine Hill where the Roman emperors once resided and reigned and looked down upon the persecution of Christians, and I thought, ‘Where are their successors? Where is the successor of Caesar Augustus? Where is the successor of Marcus Aurelius? And finally, who cares? But if you want to see the successor of Peter, he is right next to me, smiling and waving at the crowds."

Cardinal Francis George

"All human conflict is ultimately theological."

Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, quoted in Hilaire Belloc's The Cruise of Nona