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Pope Inspirational Quotes (56)

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The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.
Pope Leo I
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The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Pope Gregory I
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The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
Pope Gregory I
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The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.
Pope Gregory I
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He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.
Pope Leo I
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And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.
Pope Leo I
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The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.
Pope Gregory I
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The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
Pope Gregory I
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God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.
Pope Innocent III
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God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He can, in human fashion, be called jealous, although He is not subject to any mental torment.
Pope Gregory I
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No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Pope Leo I
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Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.
Pope Gregory I
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The signs are increasing. The lights in the sky will appear red, blue, green, rapidly. Someone is coming from very far and wants to meet the people of earth. Meetings have already taken place, but those who have really seen have been silent.
Pope John XXII
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There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness in the middle the contests of temptation and in the end the fullness of perfection.
Pope Gregory I
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Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.
Pope Gregory I
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The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.
Pope Leo I
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The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.
Pope Innocent III
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Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.
Pope Boniface VIII
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Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
Pope Gregory I
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By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.
Pope Innocent III
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Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.
Pope Leo I
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It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, he need not be followed.
Pope Innocent III
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You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.
Pope Gregory I
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... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.
Pope Leo I
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