“The Sacrament of the Eucharist is, of course, one step away from the Incarnation itself, where the thing signified (The Word) and the signifier (Jesus) were absolutely one. Symbol and sign and metaphor strain towards this union; Sacrament presents it, but the Incarnation is that perfect union. Again, it is a scandal. God is not man, any more than bread is flesh. But faith overrides the implacable prudence of logic and chemistry and says "Lo!"”
Thomas Howard
“We must visit churches frequently and venerate and revere the clergy - not so much for themselves, if they are sinners, but because of their office and administration of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.”
St. Francis of Assisi (Letter to the Faithful II
“Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind”
Robertson Davies
“Indeed, were the Sacrament never carried about, it could never be received by the faithful.”
Garth Moore
“It is not by Christ's ordinance that "the Sacrament is reserved, lifted up or worshiped." But because Our Lord did not command such practices, it does not mean that they are condemned.”
“If I think I meet him only in Bible and sacrament, and in the Christian fellowship, then I do not know who it is I meet.”
Max Warren
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.”
Samuel Butler
