Charles P. Chiniquy > Quotes

“We know a man only after he has been tried. So we know the faith of a Christian only after it has been through the fire of tribulations.”
― Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Fifty Years In The Church Of Rome

“Do not answer to us that these are exceptional cases, for I am ready to prove that this unspeakable degradation and immorality are the normal state of the greater part of the priests of Rome. Father Hyacinthe has publicly declared, that ninety-nine out of one hundred of them, live in sin with the females they have destroyed. And not only the common priests are, for the greater part, sunk in that bottomless pit of secret or public infamy, but the bishops and popes, with the cardinals, are no better. Who”
― Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, THE PRIEST, THE WOMAN AND THE CONFESSIONAL

“It makes me remember what I have too often forgotten, and what my mother often told me when young -- that our God is a prayer-hearing God.”
― Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Fifty Years In The Church Of Rome

“Let the readers study the history of the celebrated Council of Constance, called to put an end to the great schism, during which three popes, and sometimes four, were every morning cursing each other and calling their opponents Antichrists, demons, adulterers, sodomists, murderers, enemies of God and man.  As every one of them was an infallible pope, according to the last Council of the Vatican, we are bound to believe that they were correct in the compliments they paid to each other. One”
― Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, THE PRIEST, THE WOMAN AND THE CONFESSIONAL

“Let not my readers be deceived by the idea that the popes of Rome in our days, are much better than those of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. They are absolutely the same—the only difference is that, to-day, they take a little more care to conceal their secret orgies. For they know well, that the modern nations, enlightened as they are, by the light of the Bible, would not tolerate the infamies of their predecessors; they would hurl them very soon into the Tiber, if they dared to repeat in the open day, the scenes of which the Alexanders, Stephens, Johns, &c. &c., were the heroes. Go”
― Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, THE PRIEST, THE WOMAN AND THE CONFESSIONAL