CONSCIENCE God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform. - St. John of the Cross In remitting every ethical criterion to the individual conscience, jealously walled up within itself and made absolute arbiter of its own determination ... the "New Morality" will turn itself away from Christ. - Ven. Pope Pius XII That it is right for each individual to follow with tranquil soul what is acceptable to his own religious creed makes the Divine establishment of the Church of no consequence. The true Church of Jesus Christ was established by Divine authority and is known by a four-fold mark which must be believed. No other Church is Catholic except the one founded on Peter and his successors in the Chair of Rome. Especially fatal to the salvation of souls is that erroneous opinion that liberty of conscience and liberty of worship is the proper right of every man. By Our Apostolic authority, We reject, proscribe, and condemn this evil opinion. - Bl. Pope Pius IX Liberty of conscience is a diabolic interpretation. - St. Frances Xavier Cabrini From this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects ... If you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced. - St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori That every man is free to embrace and profess whatever religion his reason approves of is hereby condemned as error. - Bl. Pope Pius IX What more calamitous death for the soul than the liberty of error? - St. Augustine There is nothing more dangerous than to direct one's own conscience. - St. Philip Neri You must deeply distrust the feelings of your heart, however just and sincere they may seem to you. - St. Louis Marie de Montfort Do not trust in your own righteousness. - St. Anthony the Abbot If you excuse yourself, God accuses you; if you accuse yourself, God excuses you. - St. Francis of Assisi If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me. - Job 9:20 No one can rightly boast of his own justice. - St. Prosper of Aquitaine It is most shameful to think of yourself as justified before the Lord. Such a man remains unjustified, no matter who he is. - St. John Chrysostom No one can promise himself with absolute certainty that he is in the state of grace, or that he will persevere in it. - St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori E-MAIL HOME----------SAINTS-----------QUOTE OF THE WEEK----------MEMORABLE QUOTES www.catholictradition.org/Saint/saintly-quotes10.htm