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Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

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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

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

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

— Joyce Brothers

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Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

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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

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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

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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

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

— Martin Luther

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