Communion Quotes - Page 9

• The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion.

  Pope Leo I

  Errors, Church, Doe

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• When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Heart, Love Is

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• This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Self, Joy, Naked

  Sebastian Faulks (2013). “A Possible Life”, p.145, Random House

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• Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  Community, Togetherness, Substitutes

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Bars, Salad

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

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• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  Odilon Redon

  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

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• Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Heart, Light

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

  Gennadiy Aygi

  Sleep, Depth

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• To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Fighting, Shrines, Youth

  George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

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• In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Distance, Blow

  Paul David Tripp (2013). “Dangerous Calling”, p.200, SPCK

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• Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Mind, Lovers

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• Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Mind, Quality

  "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1997.

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• Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Mean, Way

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

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• When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

  "Cántico Espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle)". Book by John of the Cross (Note to Stanza 29, Part 8), 1622.

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• The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Democracy, Saint, Roles

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.94, Basic Books

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• Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relationship. Martin Buber stops there; his Judaic tradition won't allow him to go further. But one step more has to be taken that is neither 'I' nor 'thou' - a relationship where I and thou disappear, a relationship where two persons no longer function as two but function as one. A tremendous unity, a harmony, a deep accord - two bodies but one soul. That is the highest quality of love. I call it prayerfulness.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sex, Taken

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• In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Self, Two

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• Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

  Eddie Myers

  Wisdom, Peace, Mind

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• Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Solitude, Feelings

  "Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part II, Chapter III, 1951.

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• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, Our World

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• Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

  Peter Akinola

  Broken, Illusion, Break

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