This is My Body Quotes

“Human beings were intended to be the means by which the whole earth would give praise to God, returning in love what God had given in love, uniting all things in a great act of worship.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“Thomas Aquinas is arguing that, at the Eucharist, the appearances of bread and wine do not tell the deepest truth about what is really present and that, in point of fact, the authoritative word of Christ does.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“Aquinas responded, “Non nisi te, Domine” (Nothing but you, Lord).”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“One senses that we are poised here on a fulcrum, that a standing or falling point has been reached, that somehow being a disciple of Jesus is intimately tied up with how one stands in regard to the Eucharist. In response to Jesus’ question, Peter, as is often the case in the Gospels, spoke for the group: “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God” (John 6:68–69).”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“The Church Father Irenaeus of Lyons commented that “the glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“The deepest meaning of Christian discipleship is not to work for Jesus but to be with Jesus.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“love is an act of the will, more precisely, the willing of the good of the other as other. To love is really to want what is good for someone else and then to act on that desire.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“the glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival