Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Community and cooperation . . . Communion is based on some common inner expression of love; it is the recognition of being… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Remembering is something God asks us to do over and over in the Bible: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy”… — Eric Irivuzumugabe Copy Share Image
“The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the… — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“What breeds more close communion between subjects than allegiance to the same queen? between brothers, than duty to the same father? between… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image