"Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One,……" — Pope John XXIII

More Apostolic Quotes

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• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement.… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient",… — Pope Benedict XVI
• The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6).… — Pope Benedict XVI
• While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and… — Pope Benedict XVI
• An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity. — Anthony Mary Claret
• What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed… — Saint Augustine
• The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded… — Saint Augustine
• The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is… — Pope Pius IX
• By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and… — Pope Innocent III
• The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the… — St. Jerome
• That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See,… — Pope Gregory XVI

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