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 — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.
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