Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war. — Pope Pius XII Inspirational Copy Share Image
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII Character Copy Share Image
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII Christian Copy Share Image
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war. — Pope Pius XII Anti war Copy Share Image
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII Atheism Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals. — Pope Pius XII Character Copy Share Image
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII Christianity Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God… — Pope Pius XII Church Copy Share Image
God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of… — Pope Pius XII Catholic Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Action Copy Share Image
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to… — Pope Pius XII Action Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who… — Pope Pius XII Church Copy Share Image
How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone… — Pope Pius XII Bible Copy Share Image
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to… — Pope Pius XII Bearing witness Copy Share Image
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Book Copy Share Image
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of… — Pope Pius XII Body Copy Share Image
This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament;… — Pope Pius XII Adoration Copy Share Image
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“62. It is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one… — Pope Pius XII Catholic Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Insidious Copy Share Image
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII Darkness Copy Share Image
[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture. — Pope Pius XII Christian Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image