Sacraments Quotes
46 quotes by 36 authors
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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine…
— Origen
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not…
— John Calvin
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This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs…
— Pope Pius XII
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
— Saint Augustine
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Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.
— Edmund Campion
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What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
— Saint Augustine
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These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands…
— Peter Canisius
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The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with…
— Pope John Paul II
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The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way.…
— Lauren F. Winner
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In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
— Christopher West
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If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the…
— Pope Francis
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Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him,…
— Lesslie Newbigin
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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 open…
— Peter Kreeft
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Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they…
— Peter Kreeft
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Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine…
— Alfred Rosenberg
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others,…
— Christopher West
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