Over the past year we’ve tried to keep our “Quote of the Week” feature updated on a regular basis. Below are all the quotes which have featured on Plastic Hippo so far.

“O felix culpa quae talem et tantum meruit habere redemptorem. (O happy fault that gained for us so great and so glorious a redeemer.)” ~ Paschal Vigil Mass

“Fish swim, birds fly, and human beings pray.” ~ Saint Ephrem

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“For freedom Christ has set us free.” ~ Galatians 5:1

“All life has inestimable value even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in his own image, destined to live forever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.” ~ Pope Francis

“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” ~ Ephesians 4:15

“It was pride that made angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” ~ Saint Augustine

“I think we should at least pretend that we have an audience.” ~ David G. Willey

“It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.” ~ Saint John Paul II

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ~ C. S. Lewis

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~ Old Proverb

“The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New.” ~ Saint Augustine

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire” ~ Gustav Mahler

“When God is forgotten … the creature itself grows unintelligble.” ~ Gaudium et Spes

“The world is ruled by the ideas of those in the grave.” ~ Anonymous

“The love of husband and wife is the forge that welds society together.” ~ Saint John Chrysostom

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” ~ Thomas Paine

“Faith is the answer to fear. Deep down we are all afraid: of suffering, or of dying, or of God’s judgment, or of the unknown, or of weakness, or of our lives slipping out of our control, or of not being understood and loved. We sin because we fear. We bully because we are cowards. Faith casts out fear as light casts out darkness. God has shone his light into our world, and it is stronger than darkness (Jn 1:5). That light is Jesus Christ.” ~ Peter Kreeft

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” ~ John 10:10

“For a monumental struggle against the powers of darkness pervades the whole history of man. The battle was joined from the very origins of the world and will continue until the last day, as the Lord has attested. Caught in this conflict, man is obliged to wrestle constantly if he is to cling to what is good, nor can he achieve his own integrity without great efforts and the help of God’s grace.” ~ Gaudium et Spes