Quotes About Sacrament

To put it more plainly, suppose a small group of earnest Christian laymen were taken prisoner and settled in the middle of the desert without any episcopally ordained priest among them; and they then agreed to choose one of themselves, whether married or not, and endow him with the office of baptizing, administering the sacrament, pronouncing absolution, and preaching; that man would be as truly a priest as if he had been ordained by all the bishops and the popes.

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage is a great institution.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

No. In a sacramental confession, the penitent names his offenses because it is a way of taking responsibility for them before God and before man. He says, 'I am a sinner. This is what I have done. I blame no one but myself. I ask to be pardoned and healed. I need a Savior.'

We are starved for the unknown God. A few, like Stephen, will consume him in a sacrament. Others, like myself, are driven out into the waste places in search of his presence. That elusive presence that is neither here nor there but arrives, strangely, when we are becoming resigned to absence.

Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)

You are called to be truly human, but it is nothing short of the life of God within you that enables you to be so, to be remade in God's image. As C.S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.

The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.

The gospels are, and were written to be, fresh tellings of the story of Jesus designed to be the charter of the community of Jesus's first followers and those who, through their witness, then and subsequently, have joined in and have learned to hear, see, and know Jesus in word and sacrament.

As C. S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.3

Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.

Es gibt keine universal gültigen Deutungen. Eine religiöse Deutung ist grotesk in einem profanen Kontext, so wie eine profane Deutung grotesk ist in einem religiösen Kontext. Dort sind nur wissenschaftliche Kategorien brauchbar; hier ist alles Zeichen, Symbol, Sakrament. Der Regen ist für den, der anbetet, göttlicher Segen, der auf das Wunder des Weizens fällt.

I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here—God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.

Baptism is the sacramental doorway into the Church established by Jesus Christ. It removes our innate condition of original sin, washes away all actual sin and their effects, infuses sanctifying grace, illuminates with God's own presence, and incorporates the one baptized into the Body of Christ.

Matrimony. The Devil's first attack on the human race was focused on a married couple.

Adoremus in Aeternum Sanctissimum Sacramentum

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Receive the Body and Blood of Christ very frequently. The sight of a Christian's lips red with the Blood of Christ terrifies the enemy. He immediately recognizes the sign of his own ruin. He cannot stand the instrument of divine victory by which he was taken captive and cast down.

Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lordís Supper you eat.