Blessed sacrament Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“Reality and symbolism in the sacraments ... Only if we reject false dilemmas ... it will be possible to delve deeper, to discern the…

— G C Berkouwer

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology…

— Nicolas Cotugno

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body…

— John Wycliffe

If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

— Flannery O'Connor

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and…

— Sandra Cisneros

Being a Catholic in any way is great, but I feel particularly blessed to have served at the altar, where the work of Christ…

— Devlin Hodges

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

— Trevor Paglen

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let…

— Leonard Ravenhill

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is,…

— Saint Augustine

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

— Victor Hugo