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“Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, [this Council] teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.”
― Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
― Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
“[Man] was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand . . . He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.”
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“[W]hat counts before God is the generous, oft-renewed effort despite apparent failures.”
― The Spiritual Life: A Treatise On Ascetical And Mystical Theology
― The Spiritual Life: A Treatise On Ascetical And Mystical Theology
“[O]ften men, deceived by the Evil One, have become vain in their reasonings and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, serving the creature rather than the Creator. […] By the proclamation of the Gospel… [the Church] gives [non-Christians] the dispositions necessary for baptism, snatches them from the slavery of error and of idols and incorporates them in Christ…”
― Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
― Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
“In this moment, the noblest trade is mastering the art of leisure.”
― Harassment Architecture
― Harassment Architecture
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