Sacraments Quotes - Page 13

• A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Marriage, Giving Up, Mean

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Humble, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

  Dan Brown

  Jesus, Easter, Powerful

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• Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Holy Eucharist, World, Belief

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• Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Opportunity, Christian Inspirational

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• Love is the simplest of all earthly things.
  It needs no grandeur of celestial trust
  In more than what it is, no holy wings:
  It stands with honest feet in honest dust,
  And is the body's blossoming in clear air
  Of trustfulness and joyance when alone
  Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair
  And claim that Paradise which is their own.
  Amid a universe of sweat and blood,
  Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate,
  Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood
  Of the loud world, in secret ere too late
  A gentle sacrament may celebrate
  Before their private altar of the good.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Hate, Love Is, Dust

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• Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

  Pope Francis

  Way, Confession, Tenderness

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• To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Celebrate, Embrace

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• Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

  Thomas Ligotti

  May, Gray, Existence

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.144, Random House

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• I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Blessed, Able

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• The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Blood, Soul

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• On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Eye, Night

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• There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Things In Life, Dresses, Good Things

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Maupassant Complete Short Stories: Works of Maupassant”, p.981, 谷月社

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• That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Jamie, Jamie Fraser

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• Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God His fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Prayer, Progress, Needs

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• We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.19, Editora Dracaena

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• And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Killing

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• In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

  Bill Moyers

  Marriage, Wedding, Forgiving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.250, Anchor

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• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Heart

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• We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

  Francis of Assisi

  Jesus, Church, World

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• Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Choices, Chance, Should

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• When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we should be as comely and respectful, as dignified and appropriate as we can be. We should be recognizable in appearance as well as in behavior that we truly are disciples of Christ.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Father, Worship

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• The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Queens, Kissing, Feet

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• There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.

  Arthur Machen

  Moving, Twilight, Men

  Arthur Machen (2003). “The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”, Chaosium Fiction Series

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