“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“We celebrate together tonight that unity and that harmony as we bless these oils for the sacramental rites of the church. In a certain sense Jesus comes as the Anointed One tonight to anoint all of us and to help us be a part of his special mission.”
Cardinal Mahony
“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
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.”
Samuel Butler
“Indeed, were the Sacrament never carried about, it could never be received by the faithful.”
Garth Moore
“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
