1 Corinthians 15:12-22 RSV-CE2

Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.  We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.  For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.  If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.  Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  If for this life only we hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.  For as by a man came death, by a man has come also resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

St. Thomas More

The Church was gathered and the faith was believed before any part of the New Testament was put into writing.   And which writing was or is the true Scripture neither Luther nor Tyndale knoweth but by the credence they give to the Church.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

We are to put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

St. Ignatius of Antioch

I write and command all the churches that I willingly die for God, if in fact you do not prevent me.  I appeal to you to not to be inopportune even with a noble purpose.  Permit me to be food for the beasts; through them I will reach God.  I am the wheat of God, and I compete through the beasts' teeth to be found the pure bread of Christ.

Pope John Paul I

The Rosary is an impoverished prayer?  What then would be a "rich" prayer?  The Rosary is a procession of Paters, the prayer taught by Jesus; of Aves, the salutation of God to the Virgin by means of an angel; of Glorias, the praise of the Most Holy Trinity.

G.K. Chesterton

"My country, right or wrong," is something no patriot would think of saying, except in an extreme case.  It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

Hilaire Belloc

If England had not broken off, the Reformation would have failed and our civilization have been today one Christian thing.  It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this historical catastrophe.  It has had effects which have gone on spreading from that long distant date, more than 400 years ago, to our own time, and those evil effects are if anything increasing rather than diminishing.

St. Augustine of Hippo

God, it is true, foresaw the evil man would do (foreseeing it, of course, he did not force man to do it) but at the same time knew the good that he would himself one day make come out of it

Luke 1:26-38, RSV-CE2

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
And he came to her and said "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!" But she was greatly troubled at this saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.  And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.  And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there will be no end."
And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no husband?"
And the Angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren.  For with God, nothing is impossible."
And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

Isaiah 6:1-13 RSV-CE2

In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.  Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory."

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was full of smoke.  And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the glory, the LORD of hosts!"
Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said : "Behold, this has touched your lips ; your guilt has been taken away, and your sin forgiven." And I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us?" Then I said "Here am I Send me!" And he said,

"Go and say to this people:
'Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive'
Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

Then I said, "How long, O LORD?"
And he said:

"Until the cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate, and the LORD removes men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled."
The holy seed is its stump.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

One difference between an organic body and the Church's mystical body is this: the members of an organism are all knit together at one given period of time, whereas the members of the mystical body are dispersed throughout the ages , for the Church's body is made up of people of every century, from the beginning to the end of the world.

Carl Betts

If you are ever looking for a quote that articulates a truth of the Catholic Faith, just open to a rnadom page in the Catechism. There will be something there, I guarantee it.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 121

The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture.  Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.

Jacques Fesch

In prison there are two possible solutions. You can rebel against your situation, or you can regard yourself as a monk.

Pope Pius XI

Dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, whereas men are corrupted and degraded.

St. Basil

The bread you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe you do not wear is the the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

St. Cyril of Alexandria

As two pieces of wax fused together make one, so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that he is in Christ, and Christ is in him.

Blessed Mother Theresa

We cannot to great things in life: we can only do Small things with great love.

Pope John Paul II

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

St. Thomas More

A meek man ought to be have in this way during tribulation; he should neither speak proudly himself nor retort to what is spoken wickedly, but should bless those who speak evil of him and suffer willingly, either fore justice' sake if he had deserved it or for God's sake if he has deserved nothing.