It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
Saint AugustineWhat is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.
Saint AugustineWhere love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
Saint Augustine