Salvation Quotes - Page 27

• The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Church, Sacred, Christ

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• Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt itself to the varying necessities of the times and the varying dispositions of souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.

  Pope Pius XI

  Men, Errors, Soul

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• Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Altered, Has Beens, Defined

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• We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever presumes to introduce or teach or pass on another creed . . . or whoever presumes to introduce a novel doctrine . . . We declare to be anathematized.

  Pope Agatho

  Doctrine, Study, Introducing

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• The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Creeds, Articles

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• True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

  Pope Pius XII

  Today, Foundation, Different

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• It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.

  Pope Pius X

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Men, Church

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• All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, People, Church

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• Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Catholic, Doubt, Catholic Faith

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• Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

  Pope Pius X

  Church, Common, Christ

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• The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.

  Margaret Clitherow

  Believe, Doctors, Church

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• He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

  John of Damascus

  Believe, Catholic, Church

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• Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Heretic

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• If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Teaching, Soul

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• The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Jesus, People, Church

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• Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

  Pope Pius XII

  Grace, Vision, Impossible

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• It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.

  Pope Pius XI

  Grace, Church, Needs

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• The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

  Pope John Paul II

  Believe, Mean, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

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• God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

  Pope Innocent III

  Children, Wish, Remedy

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• Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments.

  Pope Pius IX

  Kindness, Heart, Punishment

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• The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Father, Son, Men

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• He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Names, Heaven

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• The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Development, Matter, Ghost

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