The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate,… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made… — Frederick Dale Bruner Copy Share Image
“Christians should put survival of the planet ahead of national security...Here is the mystery of our global responsibility: that we are in… — Henri J.M. Nouwen 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
It's funny because I never studied, I never took a class. So everything I do is very innate and organic; I don't… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at… — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
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
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four… — Therese of Lisieux 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
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of… — Pope John Paul II 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
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He… — Therese of Lisieux 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
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
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata [Mary]. Let her prepare us, let her receive Him [Jesus] in Holy Communion. This is… — Maximilian Kolbe 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
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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