#communion

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#faith #faith

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery? ↗

— John Fiske

#communion #day #drink #eat #feeling

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#body #catholics #christ #church #communion

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic. ↗

— Carl Olson

#being #catholic #comes #communion #god

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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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. ↗

— Hans Kung

#church #communion #community #god #hierarchy