Communion Quotes

362 Communion quotes by 262 unique authors

Each way means loneliness -- and communion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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
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
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
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
Wisdom is a sacred communion. — Victor Hugo
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. — Washington Irving
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
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
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. — Henri Nouwen
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
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. — Pope John Paul II
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
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. — John Ralston Saul
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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