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
We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I… — Euell Gibbons 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
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
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 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
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
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
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
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving… — Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom.… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller Copy Share Image
There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
