Last Supper Quotes

• It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Would Be, World, Thursday

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• I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Holy Eucharist

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• Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

  John the Baptist

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Organization, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.62, Zondervan

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• Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Lasts, Next

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• When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Holy Eucharist

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• Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Memories, Blessed

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• If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

  Angela of Foligno

  Gratitude, Heart, Fire Of Love

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• When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.

  Robert D. Hales

  Men, Example, Lasts

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• The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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• Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Goal, Unity

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• My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

  Kelis

  Meat, Would Be, Sauce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

  Louise Brown

  Children, Reading, Sleep

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• Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

  Monica Drake

  Jesus, Lambs, Lasts

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

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• You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

  David Chipperfield

  Missing, Filling In, Lasts

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• At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were people sitting on the other side but those were the people going, You know, the air conditioning hits me right on the back on the neck.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Thinking, Air, People

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• If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Lasts, Chef, Ifs

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay On 'Hell's Kitchen'". Interview with Rick Ellis, allyourscreens.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.

  Kenneth Clark

  Drama, Long, May

  Kenneth Clark (1988). “Leonardo da Vinci”, Viking Pr

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• What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Lasts, Checks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

  Tom Robbins

  Winning, Mcdonalds, Burgers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.65, Bantam

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• The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Block, Eye

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Asking, Dinner, Lasts

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• I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

  Charles Willeford

  Stupid, Wings, Long

  Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our body or soul go to heaven? What was the name of the book? The Da Vinci Code. Who is seated at the last supper? Well, as brilliant as Da Vinci was, he didn't know anymore about who was seated at the last super if there ever was a last super than you or I or Yogi Berra. Well, no one is bringing anything new to the table.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Book, Names, Heaven

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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