Quotes About Unction

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.

From the Chaldean Mysteries, extreme unction has obviously come. Among the many names of the Babylonian god was the name "Beel-samen," "Lord of Heaven," which is the name of the sun, but also of course of the sun-god.

Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Matrimony, and Holy Orders presuppose the state of sancti fying grace, which they merely increase (iusti-ficatio secunda). Hence the only requisite of a worthy reception of these Sacraments is the state of grace.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

The Unction is given to Function, not to Misfunction

When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.

Our unction, therefore, is the communication of the Holy Spirit, and nothing else.