Sacraments Quotes - Page 18

• Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  War, Men, Vision

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "World War II", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

  John Wycliffe

  Heaven, Body, Bread

  "Wyclif". Book by Anthony Kenny, p. 90, 1985.

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• The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Wife, Effort

  "As She Lay Dying". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2005.

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• Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

  Teresa of Avila

  Blessed, Joy, Soul

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• Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Men, Design

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• Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Self, Mirrors, World

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

  Edward M Hays

  Christmas, Hymns, Cards

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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

  Starhawk

  Sex, Sexuality

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• The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

  Monica Baldwin

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

  Mark Hart

  Couple, Grace, Stronger

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.14, Franciscan Media

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• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Home

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• Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

  Freya Stark

  Divorce, Everyday, Ordinary

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Despair, Treasure

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

  May Sarton

  Order, Disorder

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

  Emily Dickinson

  Share, Ecstasy, Asks

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• He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, Benefits

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• For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We do this by deliberately leaving behind our daily work and recreation and letting go of worldly thoughts and concerns. As we do, we make room in our minds and hearts for the Holy Ghost.

  Robert D. Hales

  Letting Go, Heart, Leaving

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• A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

  R. D. Laing

  Past, Thinking, Missing

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• God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Safety, Traps, Priests

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

  Lou Holtz

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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• So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by him? Do I let the Lord who gives himself to me, guide me to going out ever more from my little enclosure, in order to give, to share, to love him and others? Brothers and sisters, following, communion, sharing. Let us pray that participation in the Eucharist may always be an incentive: to follow the Lord every day, to be instruments of communion and to share what we are with him and with our neighbour. Our life will then be truly fruitful.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Order, Giving

  Pope Francis' Holy Mass On The Solemnity Of Corpus Christi, w2.vatican.va. May 30, 2013.

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• "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Humble, Sheep

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• From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

  Bernard Berenson

  Dream, Childhood, Fatherhood

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