"We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, by the sacrifice of the cross redeemed us from original sin and all the personal sins committed by each one of us..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. He does not see that God’s commitment to the world is most absolute precisely at this point—across a chasm."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar in "A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen"

"Baptism should be administered even to little children who have not yet been able to be guilty of any personal sin, in order that, though born deprived of supernatural grace, they may be reborn “of water and the Holy Spirit” to the divine life in Christ Jesus."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

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"In the course of time, the Lord Jesus forms His Church by means of the sacraments emanating from His plenitude. By these she makes her members participants in the Mystery of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, in the grace of the Holy Spirit who gives her life and movement."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"We believe all that is contained in the word of God written or handed down, and that the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed, whether by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal magisterium."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"[W]e entertain the hope that the Christians who are not yet in the full communion of the one only Church will one day be reunited in one flock with one only shepherd. We believe that the Church is necessary for salvation, because Christ, who is the sole mediator and way of salvation, renders Himself present for us in His body which is the Church."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word whom they cannot see, and who, without leaving heaven, is made present before us."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"We confess that the Kingdom of God... is not of this world whose form is passing, and that its proper growth cannot be confounded with the progress of civilization, of science or of human technology, but that it consists in an ever more profound knowledge of the unfathomable riches of Christ..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"Unhappy the person who spends all his time with things outside, ignorant of his own inner self; he thinks himself to be something when he is nothing; he deceives himself."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season

"Let us not climb with great physical effort or with gasping breath, lifting our feet uphill, but rather—equipping ourselves with a leisurely understanding to receive what has been said—let us first of all open the holy books, and then, gazing on the sacred text, we shall grope for the riches hidden within."
— Pantoleon, Sermon on the Most Glorious Transfiguration of Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ

"In the same way, as the light of the Gospel floods the house of the universal Church, let the mist of sluggishness fade like night, and let every vain activity, like a tent pitched in dreamland, be folded up; let the inspired songs of our teachers resound from the highest branches of the pulpit, bearing their own witness to the presence of the heavenly light."
— Pantoleon, Sermon on the Most Glorious Transfiguration of Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ

"You must rejoice in the love of Christ with your brothers in their successes and grieve with them in adversity, as it is written: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season

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"He answered my prayer in such a way that in the last days, ignorant though I am, I might be bold enough to take up so holy and so wonderful a task, and imitate in some degree those whom the Lord had so long ago foretold as heralds of his Gospel, bearing witness to all nations."
— St. Patrick, Confessions of St. Patrick, Text from the Office of Readings

"We believe in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are attaining their purification, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one Church."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God

"True religion consists of these two elements: pious doctrines and virtuous actions. Neither does God accept doctrines apart from good works, nor are works, when divorced from godly doctrine, accepted by God. What does it profit a man to be an expert theologian if he is a shameless fornicator; or to be nobly temperate, but an impious blasphemer?"
— St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lenten Lectures

"Is it not true that often a young man on beholding beauty has closed his eyes and fled the sight, and thus escaped defilement? How did this come to pass, you ask? The Holy Spirit taught the young man’s soul."
— St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lenten Lectures