“A Sacrament (sacramentum tantum) and the sacra mental grace which it confers (res tantum, effectus) are two separate and distinct things. A… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made… — Frederick Dale Bruner Copy Share Image
“I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, "outward and visible sign of an inward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
“I did not even know who Christ was, that He was God. I had not the faintest idea that there existed such… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
“Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
I don't really get to attend church. That's definitely one of the challenges. I'm always playing on Sunday, and that's tough because… — Tony Finau Copy Share Image
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“Christ, in whom godhead and manhood are so inti mately united, is as it were a living Sacrament — the personal and… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
