Top 100 Sacrament Quotes
#1. To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.
Aleister Crowley
#2. The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
Thomas Aquinas
#3. The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.
Robert Barron
#4. Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
Keith O'Brien
#6. 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
#7. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is the renewal of the covenant: "this is my blood of the new testament" (or covenant), so that the sacrament itself re-establishes the law, this time with a new elect group
Anonymous
#8. Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
Martin Luther
#9. Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of you.'
Raphael Kalinowski
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
John Milton
#14. Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.
Pope John Paul II
#15. My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!
Alphonsus Liguori
#16. Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.
Isidore Of Seville
#17. This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament.
Robert Michael Pyle
#18. Withdraw yourself from people and spend at least an quarter of an hour, or a half-hour, in some church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord, and you will learn from your own experience how many graces this will bring you.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#19. The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.
Sean Brady
#20. Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.
Kathleen McGowan
#21. Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace.
John O'Donohue
#22. The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted profound adoration of this precious pledge of Divine Love.
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
#23. Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.
Edward M Hays
#24. The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty. Love of this beauty proceeds from God and descends into our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It too is something like a sacrament.
Simone Weil
#25. The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
Pope Leo XIII
#26. Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.
David Suzuki
#27. To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face
Teresa Of Avila
#28. Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.
Peter Julian Eymard
#29. How I loved the feasts! ... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God! ... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#30. I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here - God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.
Oswald Chambers
#31. Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
Martin Buber
#32. If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#33. 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
#34. Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.
Thomas Ligotti
#35. 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
#36. To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Pope John XXIII
#37. Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He not always the Good Shepherd, the Divine Consoler, the Changeless Friend? Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in the Eucharist all things!
Peter Julian Eymard
#38. I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.
Pope Francis
#39. O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.
Saint Augustine
#40. In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
#41. When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God's Mercy." We "Stand in behalf of the one in the world who does not know Christ and who is farthest away from God and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb.
Pope John Paul II
#42. Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
Terry Tempest Williams
#43. In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
Thomas Aquinas
#44. 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.
Augustine Of Hippo
#45. Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#46. The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel ... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.
Anthony Mary Claret
#47. The gospels are, and were written to be, fresh tellings of the story of Jesus designed to be the charter of the community of Jesus's first followers and those who, through their witness, then and subsequently, have joined in and have learned to hear, see, and know Jesus in word and sacrament.
N. T. Wright
#48. If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
Carter Heyward
#49. Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.
Mark Hart
#50. 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
#51. And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
Martin Chemnitz
#52. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#53. 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
#54. Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.
Peter Julian Eymard
#55. It's fandom, Bran. Getting butthurt over nothing is practically a sacrament.
J.C. Lillis
#56. Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants
Scott Hahn
#57. I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament ... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Dorothy Parker
#58. We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,
Ann Druyan
#59. What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?
Ayn Rand
#60. O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
Thomas Aquinas
#62. I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love
Pope Benedict XVI
#63. O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me! ... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return
Alphonsus Liguori
#64. The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.
Katharine Drexel
#65. Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.
Flower A. Newhouse
#66. Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity ...
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#67. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.
Scott W. Alexander
#68. My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#69. Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
Michael Horton
#70. I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.
Peter Hollingworth
#71. Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
Christine Pelosi
#72. Making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
May Sarton
#73. Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks
Soroosh Shahrivar
#74. I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#75. Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually ... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler
#76. 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
#77. I sometimes forgot about how spiritual Henry was. I had been raised as a Methodist where the highest sacrament was the bake sale.
Craig Johnson
#78. The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
Pope Pius X
#79. Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of Matrimony: only in contemplating Christ does a person come to know the deepest truth about human relationships.
Pope Francis
#80. When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.
Pearl Cleage
#81. Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament ... I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#82. In every sacrament there are two things: a sign and a thing signified.
Michael S. Horton
#83. This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where joy is harmonized by sorrow, where endings outnumber beginnings, and where kindness becomes a sacrament.
Katrina Kenison
#84. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul
#85. 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
#86. I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.
Judy Woodruff
#87. Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.
Bell Hooks
#88. Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament
Henry Suso
#89. The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.
Monica Baldwin
#90. Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them
Peter Of Alcantara
#91. Marriage is a sacrament that exists partially to protect women from sexual exploitation. If you take that protection away from her, then she is little more than your mistress, no matter what you choose to call her.
Sylvain Reynard
#92. Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.
Pope Francis
#93. A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#94. May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
Pope John Paul II
#95. It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.
Rick Doblin
#96. Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.
Mother Teresa
#97. 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
#98. Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.
Robert Farrar Capon
#99. Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.
Dan Simmons
#100. The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
