What is it that Christian faith requires man to sacrifice? ... Why must a man suffer through "solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence"? ... What of this God has man actually seen? ... I would be hard-pressed to believe that, in reality, any mortal man really can. ... God is nothing more than an invisible police force. ...
"Television," Billy Graham writes, "is the most powerful tool of communication ever devised by man. ... By making religion entertaining, man can destroy its sacredness and purity. ... "Capitalism has a deity: the "invisible hand" that keeps the world moving in accordance with the inviolate rules of the sacred "market". ... Man has completely given in to notion of Capitalism, as if it was the forbidden fruit. ...
The Council of Trent defines a sacrament as the symbol of something sacred, a visible form of invisible grace, having the power of sanctifying. ... Man is given the power of choice. ... The recipient of the one is God, who receives the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son; of the other, man, who receives the sacrament for his own good. ... In the Old Testament God said to Adam: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh." In the rite of marriage a man and woman declare their intentions in f...
, a sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace. ... A real confession being made with Christ as the basis is thought to be in such way "that the whole man submits himself to Truth, in the judgment of his understanding, in the submission of his will and in the consecration of his whole power of love . . . To do this, poor-spirited man is only able when he has been confirmed by God's grace" ("Sacrament of Confirmation"). ...
