I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart.… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“Sacraments derive their origin from, and owe their institution to, Christ, not only as God, but also as man. He is the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the… — Mother Teresa 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
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed,… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
“The reference in 1 Corinthians 11:27 is to Christ’s actual body, which was crucified, as the reference to blood makes evident. Anaziõs… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone...… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who… — Cyprian 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
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also… In the… — Pope Leo XIII 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
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when… — Peter of Alcantara Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
![“The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of…” quote by Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f3/ambrose-9220_baptism_the-church-was-redeemed-at-the-price-of_2194608.jpg)
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