Communion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
-- Dodie Smith -
There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.
-- Gennadiy Aygi -
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
-- John Donne -
The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.
-- Mary Potter -
Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?
-- MaryJanice Davidson -
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him...
-- Oswald Chambers -
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
-- Thomas Berry -
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
-- Thomas Brooks -
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne -
Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.
-- Shankarananda -
We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.
-- John Bosco