Basic Christian / Catholic Quotes

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"But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ" St. Peter, 1 Pet iii, 15-16.

A non-comprehensive list of very important quotes from Holy Scripture / the Holy Bible (preferably the Douai-Rheims-Challoner version), Popes (Magisterial), Fathers, Saints, Doctors, Confessors, etc. setting out the basic Christian / Catholic position; every effort has been made to abide by chronological order; text in red for added emphasis:

• Deuteronomy xxxii, 16-17: "They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not."
  
  
• Ps. xcv, 5: "For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils"
  
  
• Jeremias x, 10-11: "But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king, at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening. Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven."
  
  
• Lord Jesus Christ: "You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God" (The Gospel of St. Luke, xvi, 15)
  
  
• Lord Jesus Christ: "It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God. And you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I shall say that I know Him not, I shall be like you, a liar" (John viii, 55)
  
  
• Acts iv, 12: "Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved."
  
  
• St. Paul the Apostle, 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, x. 20: "But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God."
  
  
• St. Paul the Apostle, 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, vi. 14-18: "Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: And I will receive you; and I will be a Father to you; and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
  
  
• St. Paul the Apostle, Epistle to the Galatians, i, 6-9: "I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be accursed."
  
  
• St. Paul the Apostle, Epistle to the Ephesians, v, 6-12: "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth; proving what is well pleasing to God: and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of"
  
  
• James i, 27: "Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world."
  
  
• James iii, 11-12: "Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet."
  
  
• St. Peter, 1st Epistle, i, 18-19: "...you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled..."
  
  
• 2 John i, 9-11 : "Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you. For he that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works."
  
  
• �And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues� � The Apocalypse of St. John the Evangelist, xviii, 4.
  
  
• St. Clement I, Pope AD 88-97, Epistle to the Corinthians: "Heretical teachers pervert Scripture and try to get into Heaven with a false key, for they have formed their human assemblies later than the Catholic Church. From this previously existing and most true Church, it is very clear that these later heresies, and others which have come into being since then, are counterfeit and novel inventions."
  
  
• Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrnæans: "Let no man deceive himself. Unless he believes that Christ Jesus has lived in the flesh, and shall confess His cross and passion, and the blood which He shed for the salvation of the world, he shall not attain eternal life, whether he be a king, or a priest, or a ruler, or a private person, a master or a servant, a man or a woman."
  
  
• Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Philadelphians: "For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the Bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of repentance, return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Do not err, my brethren. If any man follows him that makes a schism in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion of Christ."
  
  
• Pope St. Adrian II: "The first requirement of salvation is to keep the standard of the True Faith."
  
  
• Pope St. Felix III: "Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."
  
  
• Saint Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria: "They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle - the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? Even if Catholics who remain faithful to the Traditions are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
  
  
• Saint Cyprian (Thascius C�cilius Cyprianus), Patriarch of Carthage, On the Unity of the Catholic Church: "But, beloved brethren, not only must we beware of what is open and manifest, but also of what deceives by the craft of subtle fraud. And what can be more crafty, or what more subtle, than for this enemy, detected and cast down by the advent of Christ, after light has come to the nations, and saving rays have shone for the preservation of men, that the deaf might receive the hearing of spiritual grace, the blind might open their eyes to God, the weak might grow strong again with eternal health, the lame might run to the church, the dumb might pray with clear voices and prayers — seeing his idols forsaken, and his lanes and his temples deserted by the numerous concourse of believers — to devise a new fraud, and under the very title of the Christian name to deceive the incautious? He has invented heresies and schisms, whereby he might subvert the faith, might corrupt the truth, might divide the unity. Those whom he cannot keep in the darkness of the old way, he circumvents and deceives by the error of a new way. He snatches men from the Church itself; and while they seem to themselves to have already approached to the light, and to have escaped the night of the world, he pours over them again, in their unconsciousness, new darkness; so that, although they do not stand firm with the Gospel of Christ, and with the observation and law of Christ, they still call themselves Christians, and, walking in darkness, they think that they have the light, while the adversary is flattering and deceiving, who, according to the apostle's word, transforms himself into an "angel of light" (II Corinthians xi, 14), and equips his ministers as if they were the "ministers of righteousness" (ibid.), who maintain night instead of day, death for salvation, despair under the offer of hope, perfidy under the pretext of faith, antichrist under the name of Christ; so that, while they feign things like the truth, they make void the truth by their subtlety. This happens, beloved brethren, so long as we do not return to the source of truth, as we do not seek the head nor keep the teaching of the heavenly Master."
  
  
• Saint Cyprian, Patriarch of Carthage, Letter 43 (40), 5, c. AD 251: "They who have not peace themselves now offer peace to others. They who have withdrawn from the Church promise to lead back and to recall the lapsed to the Church. There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one Chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewehre is scattering."
  
  
• Saint Cyprian, Patriarch of Carthage, Epistle LXXII: "Can the power of baptism be greater or of more avail than confession, than suffering, when one confesses Christ before men and is baptized in his own blood? And yet even this baptism does not benefit a heretic, although he has confessed Christ, and been put to death outside the Church, unless the patrons and advocates of heretics declare that the heretics who are slain in a false confession of Christ are martyrs, and assign to them the glory and the crown of martyrdom contrary to the testimony of the apostle, who says that it will profit them nothing although they were burnt and slain.... Not even the baptism of a public confession and blood can profit a heretic, because there is no salvation outside the Church."
  
  
• St. Cyprian, Patriarch of Carthage, Epist. lxxi, n.3.: "Nor did Peter whom the Lord made the first, and on whom He built His church, act insolently and arrogantly when Paul afterwards disputed with him about circumcision; he did not say that he held the primacy, and was to be obeyed..."
  
  
• Tertullian: "Heretics do not have the same God, the same Christ, as do Catholics."
  
  
• Saint Ambrose of Milan, Commentaries on the Gospel of St. Luke: "The Lord severed the Jewish people from his kingdom, and heretics and schismatics are also severed from the kingdom of God and from the Church. Our Lord makes it perfectly clear that every assembly of heretics and schismatics belongs not to God, but to the unclean spirit."
  
  
• "Even the heretics appear to have Christ, for none of them denies the name of Christ; yet, anyone who does not confess all that pertains to Christ does in fact deny Christ." — St. Ambrose, +389, cited in The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 163.
  
  
• Saint Augustine of Hippo: "Heretics worship a God who is a liar, and a Christ who is a liar."
  
  
• Saint Augustine of Hippo, Sermon to the Cæsarians: "No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honour, one can have the sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church."
  
  
• Saint Augustine of Hippo, Sermon on the Sacrament of Baptism Against the Donatist heretics: "This indeed is true, that 'baptism is not unto salvation except within the Catholic Church.' For in itself it can indeed exist outside the Catholic Church as well; but there it is not unto salvation, because there it does not work salvation; just as that sweet savour of Christ is not unto salvation in them that perish, though from a fault not in itself but in them."
  
  
• St. Augustine of Hippo, "Epistle 43": "Whoever is separated from this Catholic Church, by this single sin of being separated from the unity of Christ, no matter how estimable a life he may imagine he is living, shall not have life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.... The apostle Paul said, As for a man that is a heretic, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him [Titus 3:10]. But those who maintain their own opinion, however false and perverted, without obstinate ill will, especially those who have not originated the error of bold presumption, but have received it from parents who had been led astray and had lapsed.... Those who seek the truth with careful industry and are ready to be corrected when they have found it, are not to be rated among heretics"
  
  
• "It is better that the truth be known than the scandal be covered up" — St. Augustine (cf. "It is better that scandals arise than the truth be suppressed" - Pope St. Gregory the Great).
  
  
• A dog may bark in his master's defence, and am I to stand by silent when God's holy name is blasphemed? I would sooner die than forbear to speak" — St. Jerome, as quoted by Spirago-Clarke, The Catechism Explained, page 345.
  
  
• Pope Saint Leo the Great, Letter X: "But this mysterious function, the Lord indeed wishes to be the concern of all the apostles, but in such a way that he has placed the principle charge on the blessed Peter, chief of the apostles: and from him as from the Head wishes His gifts to flow to all the body: so that any one who dares to secede from Peter's solid rock may understand that he has no part or lot in the divine mystery."
  
  
• The Third Council of Constantinople stated: "If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting-houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion. If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion."
  
  
• Pope Boniface VIII, in Bull "Unam Sanctam": "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is wholly necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
  
  
• "He who does evil because he has been commanded does not perform an act of obedience but rather of rebellion; he upsets the order: he neglects obedience to God in order to obey men" — St. Bernard of Clairvaux, The Complete Woorks of St. Bernard, Charpentier, Book I, Ep.VII.
  
  
• St. Anselm: "If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few� Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or by night, that they may attain everlasting blessedness." (Fr. Martin von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 221.)
  
  
• St. Thomas of Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. xciv, a. 4:93 The consummative cause of idolatry was the influence of the demons who offered themselves to the worship of erring men, giving answers from idols or doing things which to men seemed marvelous, whence the Psalmist says (Psalm 95:5) 'All the gods of the gentiles are devils.'"
  
  
• St. Thomas Aquinas: "When there is a proximate danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned even publicly by their subjects."
  
  
• St. Thomas of Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II, Q-10, A-3: "Nor is it possible for one who has a false opinion of God, to know Him in any way at all, because the object of his opinion is not God. Therefore, it is clear that the sin of unbelief is greater than any sin that occurs in the perversion of morals".
  
  
• St. Thomas of Aquinas, Summa Theologica II, II, 10,1.: "Unbelief has a double sense. First, it can be taken purely negatively; thus a man is called an unbeliever solely because he does not possess faith. Secondly, by way of opposition to faith; thus when a man refuses to hear of the faith or even contemns it, according to Isaiah, "Who has believed our report?" This is where the full nature of unbelief, properly speaking is found, and where the sin lies. If, however, unbelief be taken just negatively, as in those who have heard nothing about the faith, it bears the character, not of fault, but of penalty, because their ignorance of divine things is the result of the sin of our first parents. Those who are unbelievers in this sense are condemned on account of other sins, which cannot be forgiven without faith; they are not condemned for the sin of unbelief."
  
  
• "Disobedience is not schism, no matter how obstinate it is, for as long as it does not contain a rebellion against the authority of the Pope or of the Church" — St. Thomas of Aquinas, Summa Theologica, IIa IIae, Q.39, A.1 ad.8.
  
  
• St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30: "... for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; but when they see that someone is a heretic by his external works, they judge him to be a heretic pure and simple, and condemn him as a heretic."
  
  
• "The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else — St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
  
  
• "Peter has no need of our lies or flattery. Those who blindly and indiscriminately defend every decision of the supreme Pontiff are the very ones who do most to undermine the authority of the Holy See — they destroy instead of strengthening its foundations" — Melchior Cano, Theologian of the Council of Trent
  
  
• Council of Florence, under Pope Eugenius IV, after St. Fulgence of Ruspa, disciple of St. Augustine of Hippo: "The Holy, Roman Church... firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will 'go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels', unless they are joined to the Catholic Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the Church's sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed his blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church."
  
  
• St. Francis Xavier: "All the prayers (invocations) of the pagans are hateful to God because all their gods are devils."
  
  
• "The fort is betrayed even of them that should have defended it" — St. John Fisher
  
  
• Pope Pius IX, Allocution: Singulari Quadam of December 9, 1854: "It must, of course, be held as a matter of faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the Church is the only ark of salvation, and that whoever does not enter it will perish in the flood. On the other hand, it must likewise be held as certain that those who are affected by ignorance of the true religion, if it is invincible ignorance, are not subject to any guilt in this matter before the eyes of the Lord. Now, then, who could presume in himself an ability to set the boundaries of such ignorance, taking into consideration the natural differences of peoples, lands, native talents, and so many other factors? Only when we have been released from the bonds of this body and see God just as He is [1 Jn iii, 2] shall we really understand how close and beautiful a bond joins divine mercy with divine justice. But as long as we dwell on earth, encumbered with this soul-dulling, mortal body, let us tenaciously cling to the Catholic doctrine that there is one God, one faith, one baptism [Eph. iv, 5]. To proceed with further inquiry is contrary to divine law. Nevertheless, as charity demands, let us pray continually for the conversion to Christ of all nations everywhere. Let us devote ourselves to the salvation of all men as far as we can, for the hand of the Lord is not shortened [Is 59:1]. The gifts of heavenly grace will assuredly not be denied to those who sincerely want and pray for refreshment by the divine light. These truths need to be fixed deeply in the minds of the faithful so that they cannot be infected with doctrines tending to foster the religious indifferentism which We see spreading widely, with growing strength, and with destructive effect upon souls."
  
  
• Pope Pius IX, Letter to the Italian Episcopate, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore of August 10, 1863: "We .... censure a very grave error in which some Catholics are unhappily engaged, who believe that men living in error, and separated from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain eternal life. Indeed, this is certainly quite contrary to Catholic teaching. It is known to Us and to you that they who labor in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion and who, zealously keeping the natural law and its precepts engraved in the hearts of all by God, and being ready to obey God, live an honest and upright life, can, by the operating power of divine light and grace, attain eternal life, since God Who clearly beholds, searches, and knows the minds, souls, thoughts, and habits of all men, because of His great goodness and mercy, will by no means suffer anyone to be punished with eternal torment who has not the guilt of deliberate sin. But, the Catholic dogma that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church is well-known; and also that those who are obstinate toward the authority and definitions of the same Church, and who persistently separate themselves from the unity of the Church, and from the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter, to whom 'the guardianship of the vine has been entrusted by the Savior,' cannot obtain eternal salvation."
  
  
• "Therefore the holy martyr Cyprian, writing about schism, denied to the pseudo-bishop Novatian even the title of Christian, on the grounds that he was cut off and separated from the Church of Christ. 'Whoever he is,' he says, 'and whatever sort he is, he is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ.'" — Pope Pius IX, Etsi multa, November 21, 1873, paragraph 25.
  
  
• Pope Pius IX, Quartus Supra, January 6, 1873: "4. It has always been the custom of heretics and schismatics to call themselves Catholics and to proclaim their many excellences in order to lead peoples and princes into error."
  
  
• "The Catholic religion� is alone the true religion." — Pope Leo XIII, (1890)
  
  
• Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: "The Church alone offers to the human race that religion � that state of absolute perfection � which He wished, as it were, to be incorporated in it. And it alone supplies those means of salvation which accord with the ordinary counsels of Providence."
  
  
• Pope St. Pius X, Encyclical Editæ Sæpe (# 29), May 26, 1910: "The Church alone possesses together with her magisterium the power of governing and sanctifying human society. Through her ministers and servants (each in his own station and office), she confers on mankind suitable and necessary means of salvation."
  
  
• "There is but one party of order capable of restoring peace in the midst of all this turmoil, and that is the party of God." — Pope St. Pius X
  
  
• "The true friends of the people are neither the revolutionaries nor the innovators. They are the traditionalists" — Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Letter on the Sillon, August 25, 1910
  
  
• "Let us not set foot in the opposing camp, because we would thus be giving the enemy a proof of our weakness, which the enemy would try to interpret as a sign of weakness and complicity" — Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)
  
  
• "Henceforth the enemy of the Church is no longer outside the Church; he is now within" — Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical E supremi apostolatus, October 4, 1903.
  
  
• "The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship." — Pope Pius XI, (1928)
  
  
• Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos: "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. Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius [the eastern schismatics] and the reformers [the Protestants], obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls? Alas their children left the home of their fathers, but it did not fall to the ground and perish for ever, for it was supported by God. Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, 'the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful?' Let them hear Lactantius crying out: 'The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship. This is the fount of truth, this is the house of Faith, this is the temple of God: if any man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and assiduously kept in mind.' Assured that there exist few men who are entirely devoid of the religious sense, they seem to ground on this belief a hope that all nations, while differing indeed on religious matters, may yet without great difficulty be brought to fraternal agreement on certain points of doctrine which will form a common basis of the spiritual life. With this object congresses, meetings, and addresses are arranged, attended by a large concourse of hearers, where all without distinction, unbelievers of every kind as well as Christians, even those who have unhappily rejected Christ and denied His divine nature or mission, are invited to join in the discussion. Now such efforts can meet with no kind of approval among Catholics. They presuppose the erroneous view that all religions are more or less good or praiseworthy, inasmuch as all give expression, under various forms, to that innate sense which leads men to God and to the immediate acknowledgement of His rule. Those who hold such a view are not only in error; they distort the true idea of religion, and thus reject it, falling gradually into naturalism and atheism. To favor this opinion, therefore, and to encourage such undertakings is tantamount to abandoning the religion revealed by God."
  
  
• "Yes the faithful are permitted and even commanded to give a reason for their faith, to draw out its consequences, to make applications of it, to deduce parallels and analogies from it. It is thus by use of their reason that the faithful are enabled to suspect and measure the orthodoxy of any new doctrine, presented to them, by comparing it with a doctrine already defined. If it be not in accord, they can combat it as bad and justly stigmatize as bad the book or journal which sustains it. They cannot of course define it ex cathedra, but they can lawfully hold it as perverse and declare it such, warn others against it, raise the cry of alarm and strike the first blow against it. The faithful layman can do all this, and has done it at all times with the applause of the Church. Nor in so doing does he make himself the pastor of the flock, nor even its humblest attendant; he simply serves it as a watchdog who gives the alarm." — Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany, Liberalism is a Sin, Imprimatur 1899
  
  
• "The crowning disloyalty to God is heresy. It is the sin of sins, the very loathsomest of things which God looks down upon in this malignant world. Yet how little do we understand of its excessive hatefulness! It is the polluting of God�s truth, which is the worst of all impurities. Yet how light we make of it! We look at it, and are calm. We touch it and do not shudder. We mix with it, and have no fear. We see it touch holy things, and we have no sense of sacrilege. We breathe its odour, and show no signs of detestation or disgust. Some of us affect its friendship; and some even extenuate its guilt. We do not love God enough to be angry for His glory. We do not love men enough to be charitably truthful for their souls." — Father Frederick Faber
  
  
• Fr. Le Floc, Rector, French Seminary, Rome, 1926: "This heresy which is now being born, (and which) will become the most dangerous of all; the exaggeration of the respect due to the pope and the illegitimate extension of his infallibility".