Top 100 Quotes About Pius
#1. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We
Pope Francis
#2. As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.
Joseph Pearce
#3. In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#4. A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are "spiritual Semites" because we are descended spiritually from Abraham.
Fulton J. Sheen
#5. A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.
John Foxe
#6. Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.
David Beckett
#7. Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact, His Infallibility would have blended in better
David Mitchell
#8. Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev
Lynne Viola
#9. Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK
Scott Hahn
#10. From Pius' perspective, capitalism, unlike socialism, can be compatible with Christian principles.
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#11. [A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.
Pope Pius XII
#12. The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.
Pope Pius X
#13. The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
Pope Pius X
#14. No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
Pope Pius XI
#15. There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
Pope Pius XII
#16. If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.
Pope Pius IX
#17. In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.
Pius Langa
#19. We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.
Pope Pius XI
#20. By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.
Pope Pius XII
#22. Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.
Pope Pius XII
#23. One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry
Pope Pius XI
#24. These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.
Pope Pius IX
#25. The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
Pope Pius IX
#26. To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.
Pope Pius X
#27. How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.
Pope Pius XII
#29. Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.
Pope Pius X
#30. Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.
Pope Pius XII
#31. God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.
Pope Pius X
#32. Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.
Pope Pius XI
#33. To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
Pope Pius XII
#34. Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.
Pope Pius X
#35. Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
Pope Pius XII
#36. Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.
Pope Pius IX
#37. Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
Pope Pius II
#38. True science discovers God waiting behind every door.
Pope Pius XII
#39. There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
Pope Pius XI
#41. Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
Pope Pius XI
#42. Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.
Pope Pius XI
#43. The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.
Pope Pius V
#44. To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
Pope Pius XII
#45. I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
Pope Pius X
#46. The Roman Pontiffs have always ... held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.
Pope Pius IX
#47. Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
Pope Pius XII
#48. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'
Pope Pius XI
#50. When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.
Pope Pius XII
#51. You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
Pope Pius XII
#52. The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.
Pope Pius XII
#53. It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.
Pope Pius XII
#54. Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it ...
Pope Pius IV
#55. It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
Pope Pius IX
#56. God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
Pope Pius XII
#57. It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
Pope Pius XII
#58. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
Pope Pius XII
#59. The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
Pope Pius X
#60. All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.
Pope Pius V
#61. Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies ... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
Pope Pius IX
#62. The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: That we obtain everything through Mary.
Pope Pius IX
#63. The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate ..He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!
Pope Pius IX
#64. You must, when called upon, be prepared to defend resolutely and to protect, when possible, the helpless and hidden life of the child, following the divine precept 'Non occides': You shall not kill (Exodus 20:13). Such
Pope Pius XII
#65. The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.
Pope Pius XII
#66. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
Pope Pius II
#67. Conscientious parents, aware of their educational duties, have a primal and original right to determine that the children which God has given them should be educated in the spirit of true faith.
Pope Pius XI
#68. When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.
Pope Pius XI
#69. Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.
Pope Pius XI
#70. The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
Pope Pius XII
#71. That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
Pope Pius XII
#72. Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
Pope Pius XII
#73. Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise
Pope Pius X
#74. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.
Pope Pius XI
#75. The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Pope Pius X
#76. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
#77. It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.
Pope Pius XI
#78. The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Pope Pius XII
#80. If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.
Pope Pius IX
#81. 60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an effective antidote for any corruption of doctrine truth.
Pope Pius XII
#82. Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
Pope Pius IX
#83. The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.
Pope Pius XII
#84. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
Pope Pius IX
#85. We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.
Pope Pius X
#86. No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
Pope Pius XI
#87. God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
Pope Pius XII
#88. If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
Pope Pius XII
#89. All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.
Pope Pius XII
#90. The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God ... and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.
Pope Pius X
#91. Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church ... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
Pope Pius XI
#92. The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.
Pope Pius IX
#93. The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
Pope Pius XII
#94. The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.
Pope Pius IV
#95. Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
Pope Pius X
#96. The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.
Pope Pius XII
#97. The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
Pope Pius X
#98. I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.
Pope Pius X
#99. Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments.
Pope Pius IX
#100. It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.
Pope Pius XI
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