Chalice Quotes

• The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

  Danny Kaye

  Poison, Palaces, Court Jester

  "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.

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• We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Change, Country, Past

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• O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Men, Light, Blood

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• Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Drinking, Decision, Departed

  Ruhollah Khomeini's announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (July 20, 1988), as quoted in Efraim Karsh "The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988", April 25, 2002.

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• Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

  Saint Augustine

  Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Faith, Morning, Inspiration

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• Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Blood, World, Sin

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. Making a living is best undertaken as part of the more important business of making a life. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

  Sid Lovett

  Life, Stars, Past

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• Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Suffering, Tears

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• 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, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

  Saint Augustine

  Blood, Bread, Body Of Christ

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• Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Flower, Sunshine, Gold

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• If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Doors, Church, Christ

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• What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Brother, Inspiration

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• I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the power to give, nurture, enhance life. And I not only pray, but actively work, for the day when it will be so.

  Riane Eisler

  Peace, Suicidal, Men

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• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

  Katrina Kenison

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

  John Jewel

  Religion, Golden, Priests

  'Certain Sermons Preached Before the Queen's Majesty' (1609) p. 176

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• I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Wine, Moon, Thinking

  "The Moon Communion Of Buzz Aldrin That NASA Didn’t Want To Broadcast". Article by Yasmine Hafiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

  Cyprian

  Christian, Bread, Holy

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• The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

  R. S. Thomas

  Zero, Fear, Home

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• T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Summer, Lying, Air

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.116

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• What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Holy Eucharist, Blood

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. "You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?" Frank wasn't sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn't hesitate. He took the cup and drank.

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Talking, Risk

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