Quotes About Communion

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Joy is that delight which is perceived from the conjunction, and communion of the chief good.

To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That

Third. It is holiness, and that maintained in its power, that capacitates us for communion with God in this life.

Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being.

Because it's in the nature of a gift, the offering and the reception, to create relationship and to overcome that which divides, one can't remain in the way of the gift and also definitively disassociate. When a gift occurs, we see ourselves in others, our very lives sustained by the grace of others, and we find we can hardly hold ourselves apart. The gift occasions communion, that wholeness for which we're all longing in one way or another most of the time.

Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Communion giveth warmth, singleness giveth us light.42

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

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, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Worship is God's enjoyment of us and our enjoyment of him.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

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