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“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.”

Earth Generations Air Ocean Connections Breaths Contribution Links Ancestor Affirmation Sacraments Renewal Living Things Parts Of Life Envelopes

Book:The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded

Source: The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded

“Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.”

“Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.”

Men Given Love Is Judging Sacraments

Book:The Poet Prince

Source: The Poet Prince

“If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.”

Ifs Would Be Serious Sacred Occasions Abortion Sacraments

Author:Carter Heyward

“Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.”

“Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.”

Believe Belief I Believe Christ Answers Opinion Doctrine Bread Sacraments Brake

Author:Elizabeth I

“A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.”

“The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.”

Persons Made Christ Poor Sick Blessed Saint Visible Sacraments Blessed Sacrament Sick Person

Author:Gerard Majella

“Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.”

Whole Body Christian Spirit Opportunity Church Members Essence Ministry Sacraments

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.”

Thinking World Life Should Moments Might Would Be Life Is Our Lives Holy Concepts Catholic Sacred Admire Encounters Holiness Present Moment Sacraments Sainthood Holy Places

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.”

Kind Doe Important Sin Beauty Kindness Female Neglect Minors Sacraments Female Beauty Male Beauty

Author:Robertson Davies

“To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.”

Looks States Helping Speak Waiting Trouble Blessed Sacred Add Distress Sacraments Affliction Blessed Sacrament

Author:Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

“The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.”

“The Rosary, especially prayed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is a powerful means of spiritual grace. In all of our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life, prayer is our first and strongest resource. May we rely upon the power of our Lord's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and the intercession of His Blessed Mother to guide and help us in fostering a greater respect for human life and an end to abortion in our society.”

“Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar.”

Men Light Earth Jesus Christ Sacrifice Promise Benefits Draws Jesus Christ Crosses Creator Prophet Paradise Adam Sacraments His Love Altars Loving God Cords Bonds Of Love

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.”

Soul Jesus Sweet Longing Wounds Instant Sacraments

Author:Elizabeth Ann Seton

“A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.”

May Persons Born Grace Consequence Disposition Sacraments Baptism Born Again Baptized

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.”

Feelings Body Hurt Blood It Hurts Sacraments Hurt Feelings

Book:The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ

Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ

“A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.”

Marriage Virtue Sacraments Impart Vexation

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.”

Littles Water Grace Opening Sacraments God's Grace

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.”

Believe Catholic Climbs Sacraments Ladders Protestants Protestantism

Author:Peter Kreeft

“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.”

Mind Ends Spiritual Lord Depends Blessing Preparation Disposition Sacraments Our Lord Efficacy Supposing

Book:A discourse against transubstantiation

Source: A discourse against transubstantiation

“Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.”

Heart Mean Embrace Sorry Revenge Bridges Settling Gaps Offering Sacraments Ridicule Metronomes

Author:Craig Silvey

“Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.”

Men Today Belief Blood Divine Overcoming Myth Awakening Replaced Sacraments Nature Of Man Divine Nature Nordic

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.”

Men Shows Spiritual Values Christianity Sacraments Spiritual Values

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation...we will never view the world the same way again.”

Ifs World Way Body Father Heaven Church Views Grace Holy Theology Sacraments Vocation Braces

Author:Christopher West

“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.”

World Should May Age Used Culture Reader Plant Surprise Obvious Various Native Maps Coming Of Age Sacraments Ceremony Psychedelic

Author:Rick Doblin

“The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.”

People World Mean Book Different Shows Christian Grace Creation Reader Holy Saint Rejoice Sacraments Status Quo Grace Of God Baptized

Author:Stephen J. Binz

“Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”

Two Morning Offers Wine Coffee Evening Bless Sacraments Dusk Absolution Benediction Morning Coffee

Author:Michael Foley

“Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.”

Country Prayer Grace Protect Threat Treasure Our Family Sacraments Greatest Treasure

Author:Pope Francis

“Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.”

Christ Invisible Sacraments God Is With Us

Book:Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Source: Crossing the Threshold of Hope

“The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.”

Way Earth Faces Blessed Perpetual Sacraments Adoration Great Power Blessed Sacrament Eucharistic Adoration

Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

Ifs World Shows Lord Prove Sunday Communion Sacraments Monday Eucharist

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“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.”

Way Made Wine Dinner Sacraments American Family

Author:Ann Druyan

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations”

Source: So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

Should Love Is Taken Sacraments Kneeling

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.”

Self Religious Sacrifice Worthy Temples Sacraments Self Reliance Covenant Self Reliant

Author:Robert D. Hales

“The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.”

Important Jesus Christ Holy Jesus Christ Confession Communion Sacraments Holy Communion

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Men Soul Christian Certain Religion Prayer Every Man Priests Sacraments

Book:First Principles of the Reformation, Or, The Ninety-five Theses and the Three Primary Works of Martin Luther

Source: First Principles of the Reformation, Or, The Ninety-five Theses and the Three Primary Works of Martin Luther

“We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.”

Needs Drink Sacraments Cosmology

Author:Patti Smith

“I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Believe Use Belief I Believe Teach Divine Profound Inward Sacraments Converting Teachable

Author:Roland Allen

“Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.”

Would Be Faith Position Mines Blessed Sacraments Blessed Sacrament

Author:Father Damien

“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.”

Way Eye Love Is Sacraments

Author:Flower A. Newhouse

“The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.”

“Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.”

Jesus Forgiving Confession Sacraments

Author:Pope Francis

“The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.”

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.”

Moments Gratitude Present Moment Sacraments

Book:The Mount of Purification

Source: The Mount of Purification

“If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.”

Ifs Feels Christ Church Prayer Sin Direct Repentance Sacraments

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.”

Prayer Forget Alive Flames Sacraments

Author:Pope Francis

“... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.”

Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]