Belief Quote by Ambrose Bierce

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for…

— Penny Lernoux

“It is a tragedy that different interpretations of the sacrament of union with Christ and communion with his body have occasioned so much division.…

— Michael S. Horton

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can…

— Peter Kreeft

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that…

— Peter Kreeft

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the…

— Robert Rainy

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

— Saint Augustine

“The category of validity allows for ecclesiastical lines to be crossed, even if there is no communion between ecclesial bodies. It allows Rome to…

— Andrew Stephen Damick

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only…

— Martin Luther

“The Church does not depend on power, social prestige, rhetorical manipulation, or human-designed programs. All it has are the Word and Sacraments, which, though…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were…

— Shane Claiborne

“The Church has always regarded the admin istration of a Sacrament in the state of mortal sin as a sacrilege, and insists on the…

— Joseph Pohle

The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.

— Pope Francis