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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

Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph: "Have confidence; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae

"Constantly wrestle with your thought, and whenever it wanders call it back to you."

St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent 4.92

"The saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. He will generally be found restoring the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever the world neglects, which is by no means always the same element in every age. Yet each generation seeks its saint by instinct; and he is not what the people want, but rather what the people need [...] Therefore it is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”

GK Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas, Chapter 1

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."

GK Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 1909

"The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian Religion is a tourist and a cad."

GK Chesterton, Roman Converts, Dublin Review, 1925

There is a well-known story about the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was once very rude and his hostess remonstrated: “How can you behave so badly – and you a Catholic!” Waugh replied: “You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.” We remember this riposte both because it is redolent of Waugh’s mordant humour and because it reminds us that, without grace, we would all “hardly be a human being."

Francis Phillips