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You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war. — Pope Pius XII

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space. — Pope Pius XII

To live without risk is to risk not living. — Pope Pius XII

Christ's commandment to hear the Church ... is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world. — Pope Pius IX

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date. — Pope Pius XII

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually. — Pope Pius XI

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — Pope Pius XI

The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united. — Pope Pius XII

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer. — Pope Pius XII

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. — Pope Pius X

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary — Pope Pius X

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion. — Pope Pius X

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth. — Pope Pius V

The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances. — Pope Pius IV

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him. — Pope Pius IX

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church. — Pope Pius IX

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity. — Pope Pius X

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! — Pope Pius X

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action. — Pope Pius XII

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated. — Pope Pius XI

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. — Pope Pius V

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. — Pope Pius IX

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. — Pope Pius XII

Let nothing novel be introduced! — Pope Pius XII

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. — Pope Pius XI

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day. — Pope Pius X

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire. — Pope Pius IX

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age. — Pope Pius II

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. — Pope Pius XII

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX

Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. — Pope Pius XII

True science discovers God waiting behind every door. — Pope Pius XII

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture. — Pope Pius XII

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII

We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war. — Pope Pius XII

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.] — Pope Pius II

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies ... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means. — Pope Pius IX

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists. — Pope Pius X

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth. — Pope Pius X

The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works — Pope Pius X

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved — Pope Pius XII

The family is more sacred than the state. — Pope Pius XI

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church. — Pope Pius XII

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry — Pope Pius XI

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ. — Pope Pius XII

Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. — Pope Pius XII

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary. — Pope Pius XII

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor. — Pope Pius X