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

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

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.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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.