Quotes About Sacramental

#1. Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

William Stringfellow

#2. Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing ... I do not understand it ... Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is ... , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

Karl Lehmann

#4. Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation ... It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

May Sarton

#6. Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

Pope Francis

#8. Marriage is a relationship that is made holy, or sacramental, when it reflects the life-giving, self-sacrificing love of Jesus.

Rachel Held Evans

#9. spirit - we know there is something special, even sacramental about sex. It

John Eldredge

#10. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. The Fire Team's tanks were filled with a jellied gasoline/holy water mix: scourging and sacramental.

Nick Cutter

#12. In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

John E. Hines

#13. He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Martin Buber

#16. The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.

N. T. Wright

#17. Your eyes must turn, again and again, to the House that hides the Sacramental Christ!

Thomas Merton

#18. The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet ... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical.

John O'Donohue

#19. It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Daniel Berrigan

#20. When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...

Ariel Durant

#21. If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.

Thomas Cahill

#22. A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Steven Pressfield

#23. 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

#24. All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Freya Stark

#25. The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Blaise Pascal

#26. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Geraldine Brooks

#27. But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

Stephen Spender

#28. I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.

Oscar Wilde

#29. O cruel cloudless space,
And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies!
Why do we feel restored
As in a sacramental place?
Here Mystery is artifice,
And here a vision of such peace is stored,
Healing flows from it through our eyes.

May Sarton

#30. The glory of His Father which our Lord sought above all else on earth is still the object of all His desires in the Blessed Sacrament. It is safe to say that Jesus Christ has clothed Himself with the sacramental state in order to continue honoring and glorifying His Father.

Peter Julian Eymard

#31. A word made flesh leaves a community, a church which is itself sacramental, which goes about making invisible spiritual realities visible so they can be shared, especially in word and symbol. The church is a sacramental sign.

Francis George

#32. God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us.

Julian Of Norwich

#33. Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Meister Eckhart

#34. The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world.

Alexander Schmemann

#35. Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

Martin Luther

#36. Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.

N. T. Wright