“Hence, if one places an obstacle to sacramental grace, 4 he receives the Sacra ment unworthily, but the Sacrament itself is not… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Baptism is a Sacra ment instituted by Christ, in which, by the out ward washing of the body with water, with in… — Joseph Pohle Baptism Copy Share Image
“Tertullian speaks the mind of the Latin Fa thers when he says: "The guilt being removed, the penalty is removed also. Thus… — Joseph Pohle Psychology Copy Share Image
“St. Ephraem Syrus writes: " Without the venerable and divine institution of the priesthood men could not obtain forgiveness of their sins.” — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine observes in one of his Sermons: " There were those who said that certain sins must not be forgiven. They… — Joseph Pohle Augustine Copy Share Image
“The minister need not be in the state of grace, nor need he have the faith (negative disposi tion), but he must… — Joseph Pohle Faith Copy Share Image
“St. Au gustine draws a distinction between habere and utiliter habere 6 and asks: " What does it avail a man to… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“tity of her priesthood; 20 but she has never condi tioned the validity of a Sacrament on the moral worthiness of the… — Joseph Pohle Education Copy Share Image
“Merits are not physical but purely moral entities. They live and are revived in the knowledge and accepta tion of God, which… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while… — Joseph Pohle Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“Imperfect contrition (attritio) is a true supernatural sorrow from a motive of incipient charity or fear, coupled with a firm purpose of… — Joseph Pohle Contrition Copy Share Image
“all that is necessary for the valid administration of the Sacraments is the direct intention, i. e. the purpose of performing the… — Joseph Pohle Management Copy Share Image
“Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true… — Joseph Pohle Faith Copy Share Image
“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a… — Joseph Pohle Faith Copy Share Image
“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. .… — Joseph Pohle Life Copy Share Image
“The simplest explanation is that the process of corrup tion brings back those elementary substances which cor respond to the peculiar nature… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Gutberlet rightly observes: " It were mere quibbling to try to disprove the idea of a mystically real separation by saying that… — Joseph Pohle Body of christ Copy Share Image
“the scientific development of the doctrine of indulgences. 29 St. Thomas knows but one plenary indulgence, i. e. that granted for the… — Joseph Pohle Science Copy Share Image
“a) Theologians generally* agree that in itself (in actu primo) the Mass, as a sacrifice of impetration and pro pitiation, has infinite… — Joseph Pohle Human nature Copy Share Image
“As far as mere possibility is concerned, there can be no doubt that Jesus Christ, had He so willed, could have limited… — Joseph Pohle Moral character Copy Share Image
“—Baptism is administered by means of washing, i. e. applying the water to the subject. This application must be a true ablu… — Joseph Pohle Baptism Copy Share Image
“St. John Chrysostom has the following beautiful simile in one of his homilies: " As a fire which has taken pos session… — Joseph Pohle Fire of love Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the… — Joseph Pohle Baptism Copy Share Image
“satisfaction blots out the temporal punishments due to sin. Consequently the just man must be able to merit de condigno forgiveness of… — Joseph Pohle Prayer Copy Share Image
“We do not "adore bread" (adoratio panis, d/oroAarpeta), because, according to Catholic teaching, the substance of bread is no longer present in… — Joseph Pohle Bread Copy Share Image
“Sacraments derive their origin from, and owe their institution to, Christ, not only as God, but also as man. He is the… — Joseph Pohle God and man Copy Share Image
“If the desire for Baptism is accompanied by perfect con trition, we have the so-called baptismus ftaminis, which forthwith justifies the sinner,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The dogma of Transub-stantiation implies that the entire substance of the bread and the entire substance of the wine are converted, respectively,… — Joseph Pohle Bread Copy Share Image
“The sacrifice predicted by Malachias cannot be the Sacrifice of the Cross. The prophet employs the word minchah, which means an unbloody… — Joseph Pohle Jewish people Copy Share Image
“The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely… — Joseph Pohle Justification Copy Share Image
“efficacy of perfect contrition be reconciled with the dogma that the power of the keys is necessary for the forgiveness of sins?… — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“the baptismal character, as a signum configurativum, incorporates the recipient into Christ's own family, bestows upon him the Saviour's coat-of-arms, and thus… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Christ, in whom godhead and manhood are so inti mately united, is as it were a living Sacrament — the personal and… — Joseph Pohle Life Copy Share Image
“it would be perfectly proper to regard the Sacraments in the sense of Luther as a kind of acted sermons calculated to… — Joseph Pohle Justification Copy Share Image
“The confectio of a Sacrament, i. e. the combina tion of matter and form into the sacramental sign, is not necessarily of… — Joseph Pohle Sacramental Copy Share Image
“THE MINISTER OF A SACRAMENT MUST BE IN THE WAYFARING STATE. —This condition ex cludes the angels and the departed. Christ con… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Alterations in the formula of Baptism may or may not affect its substance. Substantial changes render the Sacrament invalid ; purely accidental… — Joseph Pohle Change Copy Share Image
“An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishments which a penitent, whose sins are forgiven, has yet to undergo, either here… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“In regard to the institution of the Sacraments we may distinguish a threefold power: the divine potestas auctoritatis, the theandric potestas excettentiae,… — Joseph Pohle Sacraments Copy Share Image
“Up to the time of the so-called Reformation no one ever questioned the power of the Church to forgive sins. The ancient… — Joseph Pohle Reformation Copy Share Image
![“Tertullian speaks the mind of the Latin Fa thers when he says: "The guilt being removed, the penalty is removed also. Thus man is re stored to God according to the likeness of him [i. e. Adam] who in days gone by had been [created] to the image of God.” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/559/joseph-pohle-3769_psychology_tertullian-speaks-the-mind-of-the-latin_3033627.jpg)
![“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. . . . The first was in a shadow and an image, the second is in an image and in truth, and the third [will be] in the truth alone. In the first, life is foreshadowed; in the…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d8/joseph-pohle-3769_life_st-bruno-of-asti-who-says-the-first-tabe_36723.jpg)
![“St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the merits of those to whom it is ad ministered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him by whom it has been instituted, [it is] for the perdition of those who use it badly and…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5cc/joseph-pohle-3769_truth_st-augustine-says-baptism-does-not-consi_796880.jpg)
