Catholicism Quote by Peter Canisius

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole…

— Saint Augustine

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and…

— George Carey

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be…

— St. Jerome

As a church, we have a moral and religious obligation to continue allowing our congregants to gather in our sanctuary to worship the Lord.

— John MacArthur

We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not…

— Blase J. Cupich

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

— Thomas Aquinas

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...

— Pope John Paul II

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly…

— J. C. Ryle

The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the…

— Pope John Paul II

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed…

— Saint Augustine