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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Giving, Choices

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• In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus' lifestyle. This keeps me up at night. I can't have authentic communion with Him while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Night, Opposites

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Heart, Unions, Divine

  George Linnaeus Banks (1853). “Pearls from the Belfry: Lyrics”, p.30

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• I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, America, Faithful

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• The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Character, India

  Parting words at Southampton, September 17, 1870.

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• 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

  Community, Guidance, Gracious

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment”, p.218, Thomas Nelson

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• Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Stars, Reality, Finals

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

  Edward Norris Kirk

  Pride, Curiosity, Deities

  Edward Norris Kirk (1857). “Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical”, p.25

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• It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.

  John G. Lake

  Attitude, Hands, Mind

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.172, Whitaker House

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• Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Eye, Firsts, Buttons

  "Ask the Parrot (Parker, Book 23)". Book by Donald E. Westlake (under the pseudonym Richard Stark), 2006.

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• Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kissing, Simple, Two

  "Wonderful, Wonderful Times". Book by Elfriede Jelinek, 1990.

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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Taught Us, Blood, People

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Meat, Deeds

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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• It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Men, Giving, Church

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• Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Office, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.11

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• Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Oneness, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

  Georges Bernanos

  Girl, Silly, People

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Looks, Done

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Mean, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

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• Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sympathy, Light, Giving

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