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• Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Blessed, Broken

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• Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Making Love, Breathe, Humans

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Karma, Children, Home

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• I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Daughter, Heart

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• They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Joy, Drink

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

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• The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

  Frances J Roberts

  Solitude, Soul, Crowds

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• Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

  John Owen

  Heart, Long, May

  John Owen (1970). “The correspondence of John Owen (1616-1683): with an account of his life and work”, Attic Pr

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

  John Owen

  Men, Grace, Doctrine

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.52

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• Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.

  Oswald Chambers

  Trying, Devil, Watches

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.242, Discovery House

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• Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
  flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
  the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
  Unity and Holy Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Perfect, Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.108, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Christian, Believe, Science

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• Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Men, Wish

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• When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.

  Frieda Lawrence

  Blue, Essence, Feelings

  Frieda Lawrence (2017). “Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God. . . . When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love You, Exercise, Men

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• But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

  Betsy Lerner

  Believe, Writing, Blue

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.19, Penguin

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• In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its own inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. Every being declares itself to the entire universe. Every being enters into communion with other beings.
  
  In every phase of our imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional lives we are profoundly dependent on this larger context of the surrounding world.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Reality, Emotional

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• Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Sadness, Poet

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am growing. And so this growth is linked to others, or to a collective other. If I realize that I do not love you, my faith diminishes, and I breathe less and less of the oxygen of life. When I feel linked to you, in communion with you, there is a current of love that passes between us, and the intensity can multiply. And the more this love grows, the more the faith becomes luminous, the more I feel linked to the collective other. I am speaking of God.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Love, Air, Oxygen

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• The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 03, 2013

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• It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Foundation, Knowledge Of God

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Integrity, Men, Our Love

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• We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

  Dave Eggers

  Choices, Soul, Needs

  Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.241, Penguin UK

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• Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Joy, Needs

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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