Apostolic Authority Quotes
- What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down… — Saint Augustine
- It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic… — Pope Leo XIII
- One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce