Able Quote by Saint Augustine

Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.

— F.B. Meyer

Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.

— F.B. Meyer

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have…

— Karl Lehmann

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

— Pope Francis

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as…

— Saint Augustine

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to…

— Roger Mahony

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of…

— Neal A. Maxwell

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his…

— Charles Hodge

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held…

— 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