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• Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Water, Holy, Poke

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Agency, Sensual, Vision

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• A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!

  Edmond Rostand

  Flower, Taken, Heart

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• ...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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• We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

  Franny Billingsley

  Wine, Ideas, Two

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.168, A&C Black

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• The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Self, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2023, Simon and Schuster

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• Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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• The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Order, Needs

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• I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Morning, Prayer, Bed

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.105, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Attitude, Son

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• Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Real, Heart

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

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• God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

  Sam Storms

  Prayer, Communication, Men

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• ... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Believe, People, Profound

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• Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Men, Silence

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• Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Beauty, Struggle, Design

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

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• Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Grieving, Trying

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• Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strength, Waiting, Solitude

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• I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

  John Donne

  Doing Good, Lost, Communion With God

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• Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this mystery of life, and 'understands' with unique intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the 'beginning', the mother accepts and loves as a person the child she is carrying in her womb. This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise to an attitude towards human beings - not only towards her own child, but every human being - which profoundly marks the woman's personality.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

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• [Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Eye, Simple

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• A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
  present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
  candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
  and/or euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evil, Abortion, Catholic

  Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Jesus, Adventure

  "Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

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