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We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.
John Bosco
'Attending Mass does not presuppose righteousness; it fosters it.'
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The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
Thomas Berry
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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.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
Philip Neri
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
Vince Lombardi
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To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
Paulo Coelho
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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.
Thomas Brooks
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Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.
Parker J. Palmer
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There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.
Gennadiy Aygi
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
J. I. Packer
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The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
Paulo Freire
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Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
John Muir
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Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
Pope Benedict XVI
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
Oswald Chambers
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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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Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.
Shankarananda
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Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
Therese of Lisieux
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The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.
Mary Potter
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Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
Madeleine L'Engle
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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
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
Thomas Hardy
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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
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
John Donne
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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.
John de Ruiter
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Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
Dodie Smith
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Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
Henry David Thoreau
39.
It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.
Bill Maher
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Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?
MaryJanice Davidson