Pius IX Quotes

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors

Protestantism is nothing else than another form of the true Christian religion through which one can please God as much as through the Catholic Church

My pope is Benedict.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.

Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the Constitution of our country was written by men inspired of the Lord God Almighty. Therefore we, as Latter-day Saints, more than any other people, ought to be supporters of the Constitution, and all constitutional law.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told Timothy to remember Jesus Christ, descended from David and raised from the dead. Thats a good principle, that if my theology, my whole life can be focused on remembering Jesus. Just trying to remember who He is, what He did, being strong in what He did and what He accomplished.

In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.