Universal Church 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
- The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved. — Pope Innocent III
- The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of… — Pope Gregory I
- Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It… — Ignatius of Antioch
- To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is… — John Owen
- The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our… — John Stott
- The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her... — Pope Gregory XVI
- In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis