John Calvin, "sacramental living".

The sacraments, therefore, are exercises which make us more certain of the trustworthiness of God's Word. And because we are in the flesh, they are shown under things of flesh to instruct us according to our dull capacity, and lead us by the hand as tutors lead children.

Or as a contemporary Catholic author put it, "I don't partake [of the Eucharist] because I'm a good Catholic, holy and pious and sleek. I partake because I'm a bad Catholic, riddled by doubt and anxiety and anger; fainting from severe hypoglycemia of the soul."


Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Ps. 34:8