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Quotes About Sacrament

Matrimony is a serious thing.
~ Anne Bronte
Give me the heartbeat. Give me the salt. Give me the Viaticum. Fill my mouth.
~ Anne Rice
You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.
~ Anne Rice
Qué tratas de hacer ahora? Bautizar a unos hombres que no creen en el Señor para tu propio beneficio es un pecado y una profanación. Y también un acto de arrogancia mediante el cual cargas al Señor con los pecados de hombres sin fe mediante el sacramento del bautismo.
~ Sh?saku End?
Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
~ Emily Dickinson
But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.
~ Avery Dulles
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
~ Keith O'Brien
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
~ Lou Holtz
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
~ Rowan Williams
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
~ John Wycliffe
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
~ Samuel Butler
be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.
~ Sarah Arthur
The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
~ Pope Leo XIII
The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty. Love of this beauty proceeds from God and descends into our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It too is something like a sacrament.
~ Simone Weil
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.
~ John Tillotson
Marriage is a great institution.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
~ Evelyn Underhill
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
~ Mother Angelica
I never had been by any means a book-worm; but the very outside of a book had a charm to me. It was a kind of sacrament—an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; as, indeed, what on God's earth is not?
~ George MacDonald
without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!
~ Georges Rodenbach
The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It's not simply that the Eucharist is the context in which evangelization unfolds or even the goal of evangelization. It's the content of evangelization. It's what we
~ Scott Hahn
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
~ May Sarton
It celebrated (but never preached) the virtue of spirituality over sacrament, simplicity over opulence and stubborn, ecstatic love even when faced with the prospect of annihilation.
~ Arundhati Roy