Communion Quotes - Page 17

• People in communion liberate each other.

  Paulo Freire

  People

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• Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Saint

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

  Plato

  Men, Vanity, What If

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• If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

  Alfred Noyes

  Memories, Father, Reality

  Alfred Noyes (1953). “Two worlds for memory”

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• Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went through "storms," as the Jacques Brel song says. But if there's one area where we never had the slightest disagreement, it was art. Never. Not once. Not about painting, not about opera, not about theater. We were always in complete communion. Of course, that's how all of the collection came into being.

  Pierre Berge

  Song, Art, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Silence, Sides, Communion With God

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• 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

  Exercise, Grace, Knows

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.192

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• 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

  Employment, Hours, Ought

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagination of the old Israeli elites. It's a human story, in my view, first and foremost about a mystical communion between enemies. This is the inner story of the novel. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Imagination, Black

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Bliss, Source

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Church, Walks

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• At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

  Peter London

  Song, Art, Lying

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Community, Connections, Connectedness

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Heart

  Bertrand Russell, John Burroughs, Herbert Faulkner West (1959). “Two modern essays on religion: A free man's worship”

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• From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Moments, Holy, Mass

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• Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.

  Phil Klay

  Lonely, Jobs, Communication

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.90, Penguin

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• It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

  Val Kilmer

  Sound, Doe, Sacred

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'

  Pope Francis

  Awards, Doors, Joining In

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Community, Church

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.

  Sharon Gannon

  Air, Breathing, Breathe

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Together, Tables

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

  Brené Brown

  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Community, Understanding, Roles

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.

  Ellen G. White

  Appreciation, Heart, Character

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.2240, Simon and Schuster

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