Quotes About Sacrament

your eyes must turn, again and again, to the House that hides the Sacramental Christ!

What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?

And I tell you there is a power that goes forth from that Sacrament, a power of light and truth, even into the hearts of those who have heard nothing of Him and seem to be incapable of belief.

Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.

This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where joy is harmonized by sorrow, where endings outnumber beginnings, and where kindness becomes a sacrament.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

To the one who does the butchering, eating will always be a sacrament. The flesh in the dome of your mouth, your flesh, this fallen world.

You can't undo baptism.

Word and sacrament define the task of the pastoral office in simple, beautiful, and powerful terms.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind the safety of the wooden shield. Bless me, Father, for I put tuna in the chicken salad.

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

A sacrament is an action in which the Word of God does something to us through the earthly sign. It is an action in which God gets through to us in a concrete way.

If I had your inhibitions", she went on, "we'd never get anywhere. As it is we've dragged one truth to light. If you were in Guy's position you mightn't allow yourself to be divorced because you really do believe in your heart of hearts that marriage is a sacrament." Honesty made him interrupt, "I feel it ought to be".