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Prayer, Devotion, and Spirituality
No soul can be lost by following the simple and well-beaten path of ordinary devotion and prayer.
–R. H. Benson,
The Light Invisible
History of the Church
The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second, not to fear to speak the truth.
–Pope Leo XIII,
On the Opening of the Vatican Archives
Theology of the Body
It is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not . . . accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and their close inter-connection.
–Pope John Paul II,
The Gospel of Life
Practical Apologetics
The reasoned arguments for the faith are not sufficiently strong to coerce the unwilling into faith, but they are stronger than any argument that can be brought against Christianity, and are quite sufficiently strong to reinforce and to strengthen the will to believe.
–Arnold Lunn,
Now I See
Anti-Catholicism
There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church—which is, of course, quite a different thing.
–Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen,
Preface, Radio Replies
Non-Christian Religions
Even before he was of our fold, he was ours. His character made him one of us. For, as many of our own are not with us, whose life alienates them from the common body, so, many of those without are on our side, whose character anticipates their faith, and need only the name of that which indeed they possess.
–St. Gregory of Nazianzus,
Oration 18, Article 6
Non-Catholic Christian Denominations
To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.
–John Henry Cardinal Newman,
Conscience, Consensus, and the Development of Doctrine
Last Things
Life is given us that we may learn to die well, and we never think of it! To die well we must live well.
–St. John Mary Vianney,
On Death
Salvation, Justification, and Predestination
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God…
–St. Paul to the Ephesians,
Eph 2:8
Faith and Science
Believe first of all that God is one, that he created all things and set them in order and brought out of nonexistence into existence everything that is, and that he contains all things while he himself is uncontained.
–Hermas,
The Shepherd
Communion of Saints
You say in your book that while we live we are able to pray for each other, but afterwards when we have died, the prayer of no person for another can be heard. . . . But if the apostles and martyrs while still in the body can pray for others, at a time when they ought still be solicitous about themselves, how much more will they do so after their crowns, victories, and triumphs?
–St. Jerome,
Against Vigilantius
Mary
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
–St. Jerome,
Commentaries on Isaiah
Peter and the Papacy
It often happens that I awake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
–Blessed Pope John XXIII
Church Authority and Apostolic Succession
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
–St. Augustine,
Faith and Creed
Sacred Tradition
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
–Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited
Sola Scriptura and the Canon of the Bible
The Church was gathered and the faith was believed before any part of the New Testament was put into writing. And which writing was or is the true scripture neither Luther nor Tyndale knoweth but by the credence they give to the Church.
–St. Thomas More,
Apology
Pax Christi (another good one!
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phatcatholic
