"As a sacrament of intimate union with God, the Church is in Christ, outside Whom there is no salvation."
St Pope John Paul II
"The mystery of salvation is revealed to us and is continued and accomplished in the Church, and from this genuine and single source ... it reaches the whole world. Dear young people, and members of the faithful ... we have to be conscious of and absorb this fundamental and revealed truth, contained in the phrase consecrated by tradition: There is no salvation outside the Church. From her alone there flows surely and fully the life-giving force destined, in Christ and in His Spirit, to renew the whole of humanity, and therefore directing every human being to become a part of the Mystical Body of Christ."
St Pope John Paul II
"We are born into the Church. She communicates to us the riches of life and grace entrusted to her. She generates us by Baptism, feeds us with the Sacraments and the Word of God, prepares us for our mission, leads us to the plan of God: she is the reason for our existence as Christians. We are her children. With just pride, we call her our Mo- ther, repeating a title which has come down through the centuries from the earliest times. She must therefore be called upon, respected, and served; for no one can have God for his Father if he does not have the Church for his Mother. One cannot love Christ without loving the Church Christ loves. The spirit of the Church is the spirit of Christ, and to the extent to which one loves the Church of Christ does he possess the Holy Spirit."
St Pope John Paul II