Quote#Wisdom
But because in the Sacrament all those doe meete together, therefore…
Quote byLancelot Andrewes · 1555–1626
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures: delivered at St. Pauls and St. Giles his Church (1657), p. 520.
English (original)
But because in the Sacrament all those doe meete together, therefore nothing so availeable to take away sinne, as the touching of bread and wine, with our lips.
— Lancelot Andrewes
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