QUOTATION: The Invincible Church

The one and only Catholic and Apostolic Church can never be destroyed, though all the world should seek to make war against it. It is victorious over every impious revolt of the heretics who rise up against it.

--St. Alexander of Alexandria

QUOTATION: The Man Who Disdains Revelation

A man who fancies he can find out truth by himself, disdains revelation. He who thinks he has found it out, is impatient of revelation. He fears it will interfere with his own imaginary discoveries, he is unwilling to consult it; and when it does interfere, then he is angry.

--Blessed John Henry Newman, “The Self-Wise Enquirer”, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Volume 1.

QUOTATION: Why Judas?

And although He kept a purse, yet He entrusted it to Judas, who He knew to be a thief, that so we might comprehend how free His soul was from the love of money.

--St. Robert Bellarmine, The Eternal Happiness of the Saints

QUOTATION: Christianity

Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Life is Sacred

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life, from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages, is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person. Human life is not just an idea or an abstraction, human life is the concrete reality of a being that lives, that acts, that grows and develops, human life is the concrete reality of a being that is capable of love and of service to humanity. Human life is precious because it is the gift of a God whose love is infinite and when God gives life, it it forever.

--Pope John Paul II, Homily, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., 1979