Quotes about Sacrament
To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.
— Walter Brueggemann
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
— St. Basil
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
— Ambrose of Milan
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
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
— St. Augustine
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
— Pope John Paul II
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
— Pope Francis
... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.
— Scot McKnight