The Church is united by the humility as well as by the charity of her members – Thomas Merton

The union that binds the members of Christ together is not the union of proud confidence in the power of an organization. The Church is united by the humility as well as by the charity of her members. Hers is the union that comes from the consciousness of individual fallibility and poverty, from the humility which recognizes its own limitations and accepts them, the meekness that cannot take upon itself to condemn, but can only forgive because it is conscious that it has itself been forgiven by Christ. The union of Christians is a union of friendship and mercy, a bearing of one anothers’ burdens in the sharing of divine forgiveness. — Disputed Questions, pp. 139-140 Kindle version