Pope Pius XII Quotes

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

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

The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

To live without risk is to risk not living.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

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

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

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

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.

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

Let nothing novel be introduced!

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

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

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved