41 Quotes by Pope Pius XII

By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

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

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

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved.

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

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

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.

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

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.