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The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us. -- Pope Francis
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. -- Saint Augustine
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ's presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion. -- Pope Francis
Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments. -- Edmund Campion
If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments. -- Pope Francis
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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. -- Peter Kreeft
These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands of the fathers, must especially be retained and observed with great devotion. -- Peter Canisius
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. -- Christopher West
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. -- Thomas Merton
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. -- Roger Mahony
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. -- Robert Rainy
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being. -- Sting
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. -- Arthur Middleton
Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff. -- Eugene H. Peterson
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that. -- N. T. Wright
Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. -- Jon Meacham
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience. -- Lee Siegel
When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition. -- Donald Wuerl
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. -- Roland Allen
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. -- Jon Meacham
In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect. -- Thomas Aquinas
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink. -- Patti Smith
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. -- Thomas Aquinas
In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end. -- Christopher West
Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God. -- Pope Francis
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. -- Ambrose Bierce
In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments. -- Penny Lernoux
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour. -- Jonathan Swift
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. -- Michael Foley
Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. -- Charles Spurgeon
Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us. -- Alphonsus Liguori
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness. -- Pope John Paul II
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability. -- Shane Claiborne
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church? -- Frances E. Willard
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God. -- John Calvin
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments. -- Sylvia Poggioli
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. -- Pope Francis
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff. -- Eugene H. Peterson

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