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?

Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

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?

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.

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!

If nothing is holy, nothing is profane.

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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.

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!

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Mother Church.