By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.
Interpretation
The Church is depicted as the sole path to salvation, empowered by the Holy Spirit to protect and interpret the truth of the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition.
In this quote, Pope Pius XII emphasizes the unique and authoritative role of the Church in the context of salvation and truth. He asserts that the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, serves not only as the interpreter of the Scriptures but also as the protector of Sacred Tradition, providing a pathway to spiritual truth and understanding for its followers.
In practice
During a sermon on faith, this quote can be used to affirm the Church's role in guiding the faithful.
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
To live without risk is to risk not living.
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree β as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.
There is nothing to take a manβs freedom away from him, save other men.
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
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