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Do any of y’all know that quote from St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas that said something like, “If I have written anything contrary to to the faith, I retract it!” Or something like that? Anyone have the direct quote?

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MommyWannabe:
Do any of y’all know that quote from St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas that said something like, “If I have written anything contrary to to the faith, I retract it!” Or something like that? Anyone have the direct quote?

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Oh, you mean this from St. Thomas Aquinas:

*“If in this world there be any knowledge of this sacrament stronger than that of faith, I wish now to use it in affirming that I firmly believe and know as certain that Jesus Christ, True God and True Man, Son of God and Son of the Virgin Mary, is in this Sacrament . . . I receive Thee, the price of my redemption, for Whose love I have watched, studied, and laboured. Thee have I preached; Thee have I taught. Never have I said anything against Thee: if anything was not well said, that is to be attributed to my ignorance. Neither do I wish to be obstinate in my opinions, but if I have written anything erroneous concerning this sacrament or other matters, I submit all to the judgment and correction of the Holy Roman Church, in whose obedience I now pass from this life” *

A very good model of an obedient child of Holy Mother Church this saint is indeed…

I got it here: newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm
 
I’d also like some help, I read this quote off of one of Karl’s e-letters, and I can’t find it anymore.

It goes something like this, “Even a dead man can float down stream, it takes a real man to swim against the current”
 
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I’d also like some help, I read this quote off of one of Karl’s e-letters, and I can’t find it anymore.

It goes something like this, “Even a dead man can float down stream, it takes a real man to swim against the current”
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I think it is here in this article.

CA Library
The Church will never fail
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For almost three years of my life in the early 1990s, while in my car I listened to nothing but tapes by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, one of the greatest Catholic preachers in American history. On a couple of his tapes for priests’ retreats, Bishop Sheen said that he preferred to live in times when the Church has suffered rather than thrived, when the Church had to struggle, when the Church had to go against the culture. It was a time for real men and real women to stand up and be counted. “Even dead bodies can float downstream,” he said, pointing that many people can coast when the Church is respected, "but it takes a real man, a real woman, to swim against the current."
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