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Church Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
- Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
- There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be…
- If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church…
- He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
- One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve…
- Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so…
- The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
- Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many…
- The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew…
- Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual…
- The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as…
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