(11 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I remember in Gozo villagers used to say one should have three altars: the Church, the word of God and the matrimonial bed. That showed there was no separation between the physical and the spiritual”
Father Mark Montebello
“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
“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
