Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“For that's what sex is about ultimately - communion, ultimate communion, the fusing of two beings into one, their feelings, emotions, hearts,… — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
“There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with… — Bob Lepine Copy Share Image
If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life,… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Who should serve the Lord’s Supper? Well in the early church, considering Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, the host of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from… — Francis Lucille Copy Share Image
A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents...… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic,… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“One doesn't love in order to do what is good, or to help, or to protect someone. If we act that way,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image