Quotes about Sacrament

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.

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.

As C. S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.3

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.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.

I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.