Communion Quotes
362 Communion quotes by 262 unique authors
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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American…
— Saul Bellow
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There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore…
— John Quincy Adams
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural…
— John Coltrane
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good…
— Ted Hughes
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
— Victor Hugo
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
— Washington Irving
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
— William James
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God,…
— Hans Kung
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
— Martin Luther
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Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
— Henri Nouwen
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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It…
— Henri Nouwen
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
— Pope John Paul II
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and…
— Tariq Ramadan
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A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
— John Ralston Saul
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And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the…
— Dave Eggers
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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a…
— Sara Nelson
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I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from…
— Euripides
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For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet…
— Ann Brashares
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For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part…
— Bell Hooks
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Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was…
— Cormac McCarthy
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