Quotes about Sacrament
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
- 1 Corinthians 10:16
Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28
If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
- 1 Corinthians 15:29
the Lutheran alternative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation which is called consubstantiation, in which the bread and wine are not changed but added to, so that Christ becomes really present along with them but they remain.
- Peter Kreeft
led him into the water. When they were waist deep, Philip declared in a voice that rang strong over the sunlight sparkling upon the water's surface, "I baptize you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As the water washes your outer body, so may the Spirit cleanse the inner man. Rise up into the eternal life that has been prepared for you!
- Davis Bunn
If nothing is holy, nothing is profane.
- Dennis Prager
A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
- Mother Angelica
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
- Watchman Nee
A sacrament is an action in which the Word of God does something to us through the earthly sign. It is an action in which God gets through to us in a concrete way.
- Gerhard Forde
The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!
- Gloria Steinem
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
- Tertullian
Mother Church.
- Tertullian