Communion Quotes - Page 3

• You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Dying, World

  "An exposition of the Old and New Testament".

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• All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Scripture, Causes

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2012

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• Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Oasis

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• I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Important, Important Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.

  Shankarananda

  Creation, Holy, Feels

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• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Jesus, Thinking, Soul And Body

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• Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Sweet, Promise

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.22, SPCK

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• Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

  Brennan Manning

  Fashion, Live Life, Maturity

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.

  Adolph Saphir

  Jesus, Prayer, Two

  Adolph Saphir (2015). “The Lord's Prayer”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

  J. I. Packer

  Purpose, Conscious, Draws

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Giving, Sick

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Religious, Men, Differences

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.115

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

  Roger Mahony

  Decision, Grace, Engagement

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• A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

  John Ralston Saul

  Culture, Bigs, Macs

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Monday, Sunday, World

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Dawn, Foolish

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.20, Discovery House

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• I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Reality, Law

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Blood, Flow

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• There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.

  Lawrence Giustiniani

  Christian, Prayer, Good Work

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• Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Heart, Angel

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• When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Work

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• If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

  Angela of Foligno

  Gratitude, Heart, Fire Of Love

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• If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Years, Holy Eucharist

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• How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Holy Eucharist, Shoes, Giving

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