The concept of sacraments

"The concept of sacraments as the means of a grace that I receive like a supernatural medicine in order, as it were, to ensure only my own private eternal health is the supreme misunderstanding of what a sacrament truly is." -Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, in his book Principles of Catholic Theology building stones for a fundamental theology

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it" -G.K. Chesterton

"The main problem with criticism of Catholic devotion to Mary is the basic Protestant mindset. Because Catholics venerate Mary, non-Catholics assume that this devotion must take the place of proper devotion to the Lord Jesus. They see the whole question in terms of either/or when it is really both/and." -Dwight Longenecker