Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are… — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
“Damn it. I mean, darn it. I thought the church was on fire. I’m so sorry. How do you clean up holy… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...… — Plato Copy Share Image
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat.… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Man is free only within communion. If the Church wishes to be the place of freedom, she must continually place all the… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
“As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When we receive the bread and blood, we, also, are touching God...I know you recognize that wonderous fact, dear brother, but sometimes… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“God did not create us to be nobodies, but to be somebodies in communion with him through participation in Jesus’ glorious story.” — Paul Louis Metzger Copy Share Image
We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
