Quotes from Pope Pius XII

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

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

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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