Robert Bellarmine > Quotes

“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
― Robert Bellarmine

“The second ceremony, are the musical instruments, which began to be used in the service of the church, in the time of Pope Vitalian, about the year 600 as Platina relates out of the Pontifical; or as Aimonius rather thinks in book iv. chapter 114, after the year 820, in the time of Lewis the Pious.”
― Robert Bellarmine

“But, to affirm that the Sun is really fixed in the center of the heavens and the Earth revolves very swiftly around the Sun is a dangerous thing, not only irritating theologians and philosophers, but injuring our holy faith and making the sacred scripture false.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
― Cardinal Bellarmine

“When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary,
honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her,
touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ
with the sweet name of Mary”
― St. Robert Bellarmine

“they stand convicted of falsehood while they cry up justice, and descant on the sin of theft, adultery, etc.; but they also prove themselves to be laboring under a deplorable blindness, loud in their denunciations of theft, etc., and, at the same time, devoted themselves to those vices, and dealing with others as they would not be dealt with themselves.”
― Robert Bellarmine, A Commentary on the Book of Psalms

“If (per impossibile) law did not come from God, it would still bind under pain of fault; just as if (per impossibile) there existed a man not created by God, he would still be rational.”
― Robert Bellarmine, On the Church Militant

“All men are born naturally free and equal.”
― Robert Bellarmine

“Freedom of belief is pernicious, It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
― Robert Cardinal Bellarmine