------Hebrews 11: 6

We must first turn Our attention towards that faith without which it is impossible to please God . . . For, in fact, you know as well as We . . . with what constancy our Fathers endeavored to inculcate this Article of Faith which innovators dare to deny; namely: the necessity of the Catholic faith and Catholic unity to obtain salvation.

------Pope Gregory XVI

No one can be saved without the faith of the Catholic Church.

------Pope Benedict XIV

The true faith is necessary for salvation.

------St. Vincent of Lerins

That faith . . . is necessary to salvation, no man can reasonably doubt . . . When God commands us to believe, He does not propose that we search into His Divine judgments nor inquire into their reason and cause, but He demands an unchangeable faith by which the mind rests content in the knowledge of eternal truth . . . This knowledge is nothing else than faith, by which we yield our unhesitating assent to whatever our Holy Mother the Church teaches us.

------The Catechism of the Council of Trent

The truths of the faith are indispensable for everyone.

------Ven. Pope Pius IX

Since without faith it is impossible to please God, no one is justified without it, nor will anyone attain eternal life unless he perseveres to the end in it . . . All those things are to be believed by Divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the written word of God or in tradition, and which are proposed by the Church either in solemn judgment or in its ordinary and universal teaching office as Divinely-revealed truths which must be believed.

------I Vatican Council

It is a denial of faith not to confess in the smallest matter. For we ought not to deviate from the way of truth even in the slightest particular.

------St. Epiphanius

Unless a man keeps this faith whole and entire, he shall indubitably be lost.

------Ven. Pope Pius IX

Jesus, in establishing His religion, required that everyone believe what that religion teaches under pain of damnation.

------St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Whoever wishes to be saved needs, above everything else, to hold the Catholic faith. Unless each one preserves this faith whole and inviolate he will perish in eternity, without a doubt.

------Pope Eugene IV

Without our Catholic faith, it is impossible to please God.

------Council of Trent

You must indeed see to it that the faithful have fixed firmly in their minds this dogma of our most holy religion, namely: the absolute necessity of the Catholic faith for attaining salvation.

------Ven. Pope Pius IX

The first condition for salvation is to keep the rule of the true faith.

------IV Council of Constantinople

There is no other religion than this, and the rule of life is the same for everyone.

------Bl. Theophanes Venard

The law of prayer determines the law of belief . . . for the whole Church prays that unbelievers may receive the faith.

------Pope St. Celestine I

Whoever wishes to come to God must first of all believe.

------St. Louis Marie de Montfort

Acceptance of the faith is a matter of the will, whereas keeping the faith, when one has once received it, is a matter of obligation. Wherefore, heretics should be compelled to keep the faith.

------St. Thomas Aquinas

What do these heretics mean by crying out continually: "We may believe or not, just as we choose; for whom did Christ compel?" They should remember that Christ at first compelled Paul, and afterwards taught him.

------St. Augustine

The first requirement of salvation is to keep to the standard of the true faith.

------Pope Adrian II

God's providence has given men no more excellent gift than the authority of the Divine faith . . . This faith is like a guiding beacon-light in the darkness . . . for us to follow towards life.

------Ven. Pope Pius IX

Both for our own profit and for the salvation of others, it is absolutely necessary to follow in all things the bright light of faith.

------St. Vincent de Paul
 

The souls of men attain to rest after death only by merits of faith. Therefore, no man can obtain the happiness of Heaven, which is the true knowledge of God, unless he first knows Him here on earth by faith.

------St. Thomas Aquinas

For we who have believed shall enter into rest . . . and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief.

------Hebrews 4: 3, 6

No one can know this life except those who have made trial of it; and they cannot make trial of it unless they believe.

------St. Augustine

Since without faith it is impossible to please God and to attain to the fellowship of His children, therefore without faith no one has ever achieved justification.

------I Vatican Council

 When we say that faith is necessary for the remission of sins, we mean to speak of the Catholic faith, not heretical faith . . . Without the habit of this faith, no man is justified.

------St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

No one has ever been justified without the faith.

------Council of Trent

Whoever is led away from the path of the true faith and changed into another faith, his whole journey is an apostasy; and the farther he travels from the Catholic light, the nearer he comes to the darkness of death . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

------Pope St. Leo the Great

No one can depart from the teaching of Catholic truth without loss of faith and salvation.

------Pope Pius XII

Without that faith, man cannot live piously and uprightly.

------St. Augustine

Alas! The lack of faith is the cause of so many sins, and of the damnation of so many Christians!

------St. Teresa of Avila

Everyone, therefore, who shall confess Me before men, will I also confess before My Father Who is in Heaven. But he who shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father Who is in Heaven.

------St. Matthew 10: 32-33

There has not yet been any man living who has repudiated this faith without being guilty of the crime of unbelief.

------John Cassian

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church. For if faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true faith first began, among those who received it from God Himself. It is a curious contradiction of principles which allows every sect that can obtain a name to be right and in the way of salvation.

------St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

My faith is the true faith; it is the right faith; it is the faith that leads to Heaven. I was born in that faith, and in that faith I mean to die. I will never renounce my faith. But you, you be converted and do penance. Give up your schism, and submit to our Holy Father, or you will never save your soul!

------St. Andrew Bobola

The vigilance and pastoral solicitude of the Roman Pontiff . . . are principally and above all manifested in maintaining and conserving the unity and integrity of the Catholic faith, without which it is impossible to please God.

------Pope Benedict XIV

The knowledge of the dogmas of the faith of Christ is necessary for everyone who earnestly desires the salvation of his soul.

------St. Robert Bellarmine

Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and those who hear thee.

------1 St. Timothy 4: 16

Can we be saved in every religion? No; we can be saved only in the religion that Jesus Christ has taught. Where do we find this religion of Jesus Christ? We find it in the Roman Catholic Church.

------Small Catechism of the Catholic Religion

The truth of our faith is established by so many manifest proofs that he who does not embrace it can only be called a fool.

------St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

He who does not believe contracts an incurable sin; for by his disbelief he dares to assert that God is either impotent or a liar.

------St. John Chrysostom

Let them condemn the authors of their proud error by their own clear confessions, and let them hate in their previous doctrine whatsoever the universal Church has abhorred.

------Pope St. Leo the Great

I believe as the Catholic Church teaches me, and in this faith I will both live and die.

------St. Margaret Clitherow

Although I constantly have had much to do with heretics, I have never once doubted my faith in the least, O bountiful God! Great indeed are the favors by which Thou hast bound me to Thee; but how shall I ever sufficiently thank Thee for having enlightened me with the true faith?
        
------St. Francis de Sales

There are no greater riches, no greater treasures, no greater substance in this world greater than the Catholic faith. It saves sinful man, gives sight to the blind, heals the sick, Baptizes catechumens, restores the penitent, helps the just, and crowns the Martyrs.

------St. Augustine

        O God, everlasting Creator of all things, remember that the souls of unbelievers were made by Thee and formed in Thine Own image and likeness. Remember that Thy Son Jesus endured a most bitter death for their salvation. Permit not, O Lord, that Thy Son should any longer be despised by unbelievers . . . Forget their idolatry and unbelief, and grant that they too may some day know Him Whom Thou hast sent, the very Lord Jesus Christ, Who is our Salvation, our Life and Resurrection, by Whom we have been saved and delivered, to Whom be glory for endless ages. Amen.

------Ven. Pope Pius IX

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