Eucharist Quotes

“The eucharist relativizes every leader.”

— Craig Keen

The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist

— Pope Pius X

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

— Pope Pius X

“But a dauntless faith believes”

— St. Thomas Aquinas

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist

— Peter Julian Eymard

The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us

— John of Damascus

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

— Pope John Paul II

“I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.”

— Ann Voskamp

“If the Cross is God’s masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.”

— Gangai Victor

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave…

— N. T. Wright

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

— Pope Benedict XVI

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

— Josemaria Escriva

Once I've received the Eucharist, then I'm prepared to go out and play.

— Philip Rivers

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

— Scot McKnight

“The Eucharist is usually not considered an essential aspect of Christian worship by those concerned with church growth.”

— Paul W. Chilcote

“...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.”

— Patrick T. McCormick

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit…

— Ambrose

Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing…

— Mother Teresa

With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It’s not simply that the Eucharist is the context in…

— Scott Hahn

Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out…

— Pope Francis

Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the…

— Peter Julian Eymard

The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object…

— Pope John XXIII

The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the…

— Peter Julian Eymard

What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not…

— Frederick Buechner

Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that…

— Pope John Paul II

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in…

— Andrew Greeley

Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He…

— Peter Julian Eymard

And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call…

— Cyprian

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face:…

— Pope Benedict XVI

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies…

— Pope John Paul II

“Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, “We…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my…

— Juan de la Cruz

“For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring,…

— John Calvin

“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized…

— Ben Witherington III

“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the…

— Ben Witherington III

“Is the Lord’s Supper only for Christians? Whenever I ask this question I immediately remember the character of those that partook of…

— Ben Witherington III