Robert Bellarmine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Men #Charity #Lost
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Men #Charity #Unions
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Jesus #Science #Earth
Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Men #Animal #Race
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Kings #Rome #People
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Heart #Men #Behaviour
God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Simple #Men #Animal
It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Done #Shapes #Creation
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Men #Way #Faults
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Attitude #Axes #Scary
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Faith #Inspiration #Charity
Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.
-- Robert Bellarmine

#Belief

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