Quotes About Communion

five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving.

Por eso, cuando participamos del pan y bebemos de la copa con otro ser humano, todo lo que nos divide queda superado por el amor que Dios tiene dentro de sí. Un hombre que deshonra a su esposa ha roto la comunión con Dios. Un hombre que deshonra a su prójimo ha roto la comunión con Dios. En suma, la comunión es tanto vertical como horizontal.

The oneness of the Trinity and the oneness of our communion with the triune God is the only hope for our fractured lives to be mended and for our fractured societies and fractured races to come together. Teaching

There was both unity and diversity in the Trinity, the first cause of all life, and until we find that communion with God, we can have no real unity within ourselves or with our fellow human beings.

We are each going to die alone. It is necessary to come to terms with our basic aloneness, to become comfortable with it. The mind can become strong and peaceful in that understanding, making possible a beautiful communion with others. When we understand ourselves, then relationships become easy and meaningful

The expression of emptiness is love, because emptiness means "emptiness of self." When there is no self, there is no other. That duality is created by the idea of self, of I, of ego. When there's no self, there is a unity, a communion. And without the thought of "I'm loving someone," love becomes the natural expression of that oneness.

Real prayer begins when we enter into such communion with Him, that the Holy Spirit can pray the will of the Father through us.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

doing economic justice for the vulnerable in generous, intentional ways, is communion with God.

In the prophetic tradition the continual insistence is that trusting relationships and not tradable commodities are the proper category for communion with God.

A formal theology of sacrifice, or its origins, are nowhere presented in Israel's history or documents. But there were three basic purposes in the sacrifices: (1) to offer a gift to Yahweh; (2) to enjoy communion and fellowship with Yahweh; and (3) to atone for sin.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

RE 3:20," a reference to Revelations 3:20, which advises, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come to him and dine with him, and he with Me." "You know," Grogan said,

In a simple meal with His disciples, Jesus offers the wine and bread as symbols of His body and blood so that they—so that we—will never forget His magnificent sacrifice that broke the power of sin in our lives. In the Lord's Supper, in worship, in thanksgiving, let's remember God's goodness to us.

It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as to what to do, and how to do it... [Actually we are] to direct people to the Gospel of Grace—to Jesus Christ, that they might look to Him to lead them, open their hearts in faith and in prayer, and to draw them by the Spirit into His eternal life of communion with the Father

Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute—and absolutely unknown—future.

Therefore, in the presence of my dear family, in the presence of my Church, and in the presence of the imagined communion of my readers, I have told this story in the hope of forgiveness, and as a promise.

There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Why

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

Where is there a systematic theology class that helps students realize that when you unpack the inclination or the nature of the Trinity or the two natures of Christ or the substitutionary atonement, you commune with the Lord as you defend and contend for the doctrine, or else you are not doing it right? No wonder people often don't want to be around doctrinally driven individuals! They are not doing doctrine right. They are not emotionally in touch with the truths they are teaching.

Religion can be defined as a relatively-bounded system of beliefs, symbols and practices that addresses the nature of existence, and in which communion with others and Otherness is lived as if it both takes in and spiritually transcends socially-grounded ontologies of time, space, embodiment and knowing.

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)

Writing is the most disembodied art, and reading and writing are largely private and solitary experiences, so music and dance have always enchanted me as arts in which the body of the performer communicates directly to the audience, welding a kind of communion writers rarely experience.

I think of that lost world, the way we lived before these new networking technologies, as having two poles: solitude and communion. The new chatter puts us somewhere in between, assuaging fears of being alone without risking real connection. It is a shallow between two deeper zones, a safe spot between the dangers of contact with ourselves, with others.