Communion Quotes - Page 19

• To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.

  Joseph Hertz

  Daughter, Spiritual, Father

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Introduction (p. ix),

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• Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

  Sallust

  Grief, Make Happy, Joy

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• The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.

  Charles Deems

  Believe, Voice, Lord's Supper

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• Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Years, Way

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.10, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

  John Muir

  Treasure, Lovers, Draws

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.589, The Mountaineers Books

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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Giving, Choices

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• To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bread, Christ, Resolve

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, People

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• Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Eye, Dwelling Place, People

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Soul, Body, Fasting

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• The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Mistake, Sadness

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• While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Father, New Day

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• You have to do your First Penance before your First Holy Communion. You're really young. What do you know? You've got nothing to confess. All I knew was that I was an evil human whose sins caused the death of our Lord.

  Stephen Colbert

  Evil, Sin, Lord

  Source: www.elle.com

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• God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Peace With God, Saving, Scripture

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• People in communion liberate each other.

  Paulo Freire

  People

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• Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Saint

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

  Plato

  Men, Vanity, What If

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• If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

  Alfred Noyes

  Memories, Father, Reality

  Alfred Noyes (1953). “Two worlds for memory”

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• Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Silence, Sides, Communion With God

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Angel, Two, Envy

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• When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jobs, Self, Achievement

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.91, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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