Affection Quote by Thomas Aquinas

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

— Kathleen Dowling Singh

It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were,…

— Angela of Foligno

“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

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

“A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people…

— R.C. Sproul

The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down…

— Frederick William Faber

The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and…

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

“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

O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the…

— Columba Marmion

“I did not even know who Christ was, that He was God. I had not the faintest idea that there existed such a thing…

— Thomas Merton

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

— Honore de Balzac