ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕤

"Religious truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge. "To blot it out is nothing short, if I may so speak, of unraveling the web of university teaching." - St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

"The purpose of clothing is to keep warm in winter and to cover your nakedness, not to serve your vanity." - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"In doing what we ought, we deserve no praise, because it is our duty." - St. Augustine of Hippo

"Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points; it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your self-denial." - St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Regarding its substance, faith does not grow with passage of time, for whatever has been delivered since the beginning was contained in the faith of the ancient fathers. "As regards its explication, however, the number of articles has increased, for we moderns explicitly believe what they believed implicitly." - St. Thomas Aquinas

"By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved is transformed in the lover. "Just as hard iron in the forge takes on the color, heat, energy, and form of the fire to such a degree that it almost turns into fire, so the soul, united with God through the perfect grace of divine love, will itself become almost divine and transformed in God." - St. Angela of Folingo

"The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God." - St. Thomas Aquinas

"The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phrase of them. "It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary nor grafts things superfluous; it neither gives up its own nor usurps what does not belong to it. "But it devotes all its diligence to one aim: to treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to nurse and polish what from ancient times may have remained unshaped and unfinished; to consolidate and strengthen what was already clear and plain; and to gaurd what already was confirmed and defined." - St. Vincent of Lerins

"Think often of death, so as to prepare for it and appraise things at their true value." - St. Charles de Foucauld

"Of all things of life, a happy death is our principal concern. "For if we attain that, it matters little if we lose all the rest. But if we do not attain that, nothing else is of any value." - St. Juniperro Serra

"From the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas." - St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

"The knowledge of doctrines is a precious possession." - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"The disbelief of [Saint] Thomas [the Apostle] has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples. "As he touches Christ and is won over to belief, every doubt is cast aside and our faith is strengthened." - Pope St. Gregory the Great

"He lacks everything who thinks he lacks nothing." - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Church doctrines are a powerful weapon; they were not sent into the world for nothing. God's word does not return to Him void." - St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

"God is what we ourselves aspired to be when we fell away from Him, when we listened to the voice of the seducer—'You shall be as gods'—and thus abandoned the very One who intended to make us gods, not by our desertion of Him, but by our participation in Him." - St. Augustine of Hippo