Bible Quote by Saint Augustine

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice,…

— Saint Augustine

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

They have not understood that the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole…

— Gregory Palamas

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the…

— Anonymous

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a…

— Anonymous

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that…

— R. C. Sproul

“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result of which…

— N.T. Wright

“What the first Christians knew as the “New Testament” was not a book, but the Eucharist. In a cultic setting, at a solemn sacrificial…

— Scott Hahn

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

— Amy Carmichael

Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular…

— Catherine Booth

“Jesus understood himself as bearer of the word of God in the end times. His call to decision in the face of his person…

— Hammann Konrad

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe,…

— Bono