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> [“When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes a communion filled and overflowing with the divine love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/when-we-speak-of-the-church-as-the-body-of-christ-we-are-saying-that/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

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> [“One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her Lord; she does not prolong Him, but she expresses Him here and now. She does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/one-cannot-pass-without-interruption-from-christ-to-the-church-the/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

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## Other authors on Body of christ

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## More by T.F. Torrance

> [“Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/christ-has-redeemed-our-humanity-from-vanity-and-our-time-from/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“We are united to Christ who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and participate in the risen Humanity of Christ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/we-are-united-to-christ-who-is-bone-of-our-bone-and-flesh-of-our/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/when-we-speak-of-the-church-as-the-body-of-christ-we-are-saying-that/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“True thinking takes place within a frame of continuous historical development in which progress in understanding is being made. . . . No constructive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/true-thinking-takes-place-within-a-frame-of-continuous-historical/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“The radical significance of Christ's substitutionary Priesthood does not lie in the fact that His perfect Self-offering perfects and completes our imperfect offerings, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/the-radical-significance-of-christ-s-substitutionary-priesthood-does/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/one-cannot-pass-without-interruption-from-christ-to-the-church-the/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/there-can-be-no-more-laying-of-foundations-any-more-than-there-can-be/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

> [“No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/no-scientist-ever-begins-his-work-de-novo-while-he-works-with-the/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

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