Quotes 3 Flashcards
the gift recieved by newborn infants needs to be accepted by them freely and responsibly once they have reached adulthood: the process of growing up will then bring them to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, which precisely strengthens the baptized and confers upon each one the “seal of the Holy Spirit
Pope Benedict XVI
[he] desires all mean to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth
Timothy 2:4
Unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God
John 3:5
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die tot the Lord; so then, whether we live or wether we die, we are the Lord’s
Romans 14: 8
For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and all were made to drink of one spirit
Corinthians 12:13
And if [we are] children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ
Romans 8:17
Now when the apostles at jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to then Peter and john, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy spirit for the spirit had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus
Acts 8:14-16
God would have given us something greater if he had something greater than himself
St. John Vianney
I am created to do or to be something for which no one else is created; i have a place in God’s counsels, in Gods world, which no one else has. whether i be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by man, God knows me and calls em by my name
Bl. John Henry Newman
he actual effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God
St. Thomas Aquinas
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you
James 4:8
How can jesus distribute his body and his blood? By making the bread into his body and the wine into his blood, he anticipates his death, he accepts it in his heart, and he transforms it into an action of love. What on the outside is simply brutal violence - the Crucifixion - from within becomes an act of total self- giving love
Pope Benedict XVI
It was though i heard a voice on high: I am the food of the strong; eats then of me and grow. But you will not transform me into yourself like food for the body, but rather you will be transformed into me
St. Augustine
Not to go to Communion is like someone dying of thirst beside a spring
St John Vianney