Life Quote by John Calvin

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

— Saint Augustine

“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation.…

— Wendell Berry

“I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For as they…

— Martin Luther

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and…

— David Suzuki

“Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath in meditation,…

— Mark Nepo

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls…

— Catharine Arnold

“This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch...,…

— Robert Michael Pyle

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.

— William Tyndale

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is…

— Wendell Berry

“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

“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.”

— Wes Adamson

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

— Thomas Aquinas