Quotes about Sacrament
The Lord's Supper is a gift to you. The Lord's Supper is a sacrament,4 not a sacrifice.5
— Max Lucado
This is the sacrifice of Christians: we, being many, are one body in Christ. And this also is the sacrifice which the Church continually celebrates in the sacrament of the altar, known to the faithful, in which she teaches that she herself is offered in the offering she makes to God.
— St. Augustine
Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
— Pope John Paul II
I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.
— Henry David Thoreau
When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.
— Frederick Buechner
But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.
— Avery Dulles
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
— Rowan Williams
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
— John Wycliffe
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.
— John Tillotson
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
— Evelyn Underhill
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
— Mother Angelica