Top 25 Communion Quotes of 40 - Page 2

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

Oswald Chambers

Profound, Communion, Activity

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.23, Discovery House

The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.

Mary Potter

Lord, Holy, Communion

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Madeleine L'Engle

Silence, Sides, Communion

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Thomas Hardy

Communion, Ought

Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.307, e-artnow

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Past, Men, Communion

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

Parker J. Palmer

Community, Guidance, Communion

Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

John Donne

Doing Good, Lost, Communion

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bread, Christ, Communion

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Imagination, Heaven, Communion

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.334, e-artnow

Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

MaryJanice Davidson

Water, Holy, Communion

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Inward, Communion

Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.

John de Ruiter

Movement, Communion

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Henry David Thoreau

Privacy, Communion

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2058, Delphi Classics

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Dodie Smith

Art, Thinking, Communion

Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.266, St. Martin's Griffin

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

C. S. Lewis

Mind, Communion, Command

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.82, Simon and Schuster