Pope Pius XII Quotes

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• You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
• The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to…
• 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…
• Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in…
• To live without risk is to risk not living.
• This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs…
• 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…
• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and…
• True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
• All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.
• Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God…
• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling…
• 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…
• There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions…
• 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…
• 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…
• To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
• All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.
• 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…

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