Pope Pius XII Quotes

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• To live without risk is to risk not living.

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  Karma, Risk

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• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

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  War, Anti War, Antiwar

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• A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’

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  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.

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  Brother, Justice, Humanity

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• The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

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  Church, Tongue, Return

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

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  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

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  Two, Should, United

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• 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.

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  Independent, Dedication, Self

  "America", Vol. 100, by America Press, (p. 121), 1958.

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• To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

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  Christian, Mother, Wings

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• 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

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  Son, Heaven, Church

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• Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Bird, Form

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• There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

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  Christian, Mean, Blessing

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• True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

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  Inspirational, Doors, Waiting

  "Discorso di sua santità Pio XII alla Pontificia Accademia delle scienze 22 novembre 1951".

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• O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who art the Seat of Wisdom, enlighten the minds wretchedly enfolded in the darkness of ignorance and sin, that they may clearly recognize the Holy, Catholic, Roman Church to be the only true Church of Jesus Christ, outside of which neither sanctity nor salvation can be found.

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  Mother, Jesus, Art

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• Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

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  Soul, Darkness, Modesty

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• God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

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  Men, Space, Effort

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• 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.

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  Christian, Community, Wish

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• 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.

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  Church, Sacred, Scripture

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• Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

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  Sports, Communication, Character

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• Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.

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  Christian, Powerful, Catholic

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• In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists!

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  Space, Light, Creator God

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

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  Today, Foundation, Different

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• 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.

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  Church, Sacred, Christ

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• Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.

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  Christian, Daughter, Mother

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