#communion

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#integration #unity #communication

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#faith #god #independence #prayer #self-sufficiency

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

— Joyce Brothers

#communion #just #marriage #out #remembering

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. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

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

— William C. Bryant

#forms #her #him #holds #language

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. ↗

— John Coltrane

#communion #feel #get #laws #musician

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ↗

— Martin Luther

#charming #communion #company #friendly #good

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

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#cardinals #communion #democrat #even #give