John Wycliffe Quotes

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.

I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.

I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.

I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

My son was baptized in the River Jordan.

And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God. In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living.For in this way our Lord is ever present among those who believe in him, according to what He said: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world."

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.

You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.