Communion Quotes - Page 4

• Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Sight, Saws

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• Communion is deeper than theology.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Theology, Deeper

  Samuel Chadwick (2012). “The Path of Prayer”, p.31, CLC Publications

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• The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

  Pope Francis

  Rome, Catholic, Church

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• In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator.  And what a privilege!  To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.

  Bob Lepine

  Heaven, Thrones, Benefits

  Bob Lepine (2003). “The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife”, Gospel Light Pubns

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• I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Sweet, Jesus

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.313, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Lonely, Tired, Effort

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• Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Self, Roots

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons

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• Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

  John Calvin

  Merit, Holiness, Christ

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• ...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Ministry, Sometimes

  John Henry Jowett (1922). “God - Our Contemporary”

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• The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Christian, Unions, Return

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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• The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Communication, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Evil

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.322, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

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• The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.

  John G. Lake

  Beautiful, Father, People

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• Real prayer is communion with God

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Real, Communion With God

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.216, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• ...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Desire, Looks

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• Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

  Howard Thurman

  Jesus, Father, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Son

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Men of the Old Testament”

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• We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.

  Wendell Berry

  Loneliness, Wild Places, Voice

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint

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• Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

  Tommy Tenney

  Zero, Father, Heart

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• God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Self, Perfect, Catholic

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• Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Passion, Psychics, Making Love

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.2, Dell

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• Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.

  Pope Innocent I

  Catholic, Church, Edification

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• First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Voice, Heaven

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• Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spring, Love Life, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.67, Random House

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