Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• 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 saved.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Church, Ark

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.78, Sophia Institute Press

• 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 the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Writing, Past, People

• 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 more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fighting, Errors, Numbers

• 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 members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Men, Catholic

• If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Men, Baptism

• 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 they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2362, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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 body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Community, Faithful

• 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 too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Names, Giving

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Summa Theologica.ed”

• The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Church, Authority, Jealously

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5138, Catholic Way Publishing

• He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Church, Doe

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