Communion Quotes

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.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

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.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

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.

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar.

It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.

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

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

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

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

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

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.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.