Communion Quotes - Page 8

• ¿Cómo puede valer la pena vivir, si carece de la tranquila confianza depositada por el amigo en el amigo? ¿Qué alegría más dulce que la del alma afín, cuya conversación no difiere de la comunión con uno mismo?

  Quintus Ennius

  Real, Ser, Alegría

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• El papel de disidente no es, ni debe ser, una pretensión de pertenencia a una comunión de santos. En otras palabras, cuanto más falible es el mamífero, más verdadero es el ejemplo.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Democracia, Santo, Roles

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). "Letters to a Young Contrarian", p.94, Basic Books

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• This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Self, Joy, Naked

  Sebastian Faulks (2013). “A Possible Life”, p.145, Random House

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• There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Church, Compromise, Hours

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

  George Sand

  Together, Meals, Satisfaction

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

  Dan Brown

  Sunday, Blood, Feet

  "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Robert Langdon, Ch. 6), 2009.

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• The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Views, Sky, Earth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Long, People

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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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

  Art, Thinking, Extensions

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.266, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Gide y yo hemos alcanzado una comunión intelectual tan perfecta que experimento los dolores de parto apropiados para cada pensamiento que él da a luz.

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Giving, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Roots, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Healing, Body

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.173, Penguin

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• He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Brother, Stars

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• Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

  Sara Nelson

  Book, Reading, Decision

  Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.38, Penguin

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• He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

  Eurípides

  Laughter, Sleep, Blood

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• For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Perfect, Long, Promise

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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

  Community, Important, Ministry

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• They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Self, Hands, Brave

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.365, e-artnow

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• Permítanme llamar su atención sobre el valor y la belleza del matrimonio. La complementariedad del hombre y la mujer, vértice de la creación divina, está siendo cuestionada por la ideología de género, en nombre de una sociedad más libre y justa. La diferencia entre el hombre y la mujer no es para oponerse, ni para subordinarse, sino para la comunión y la generación, siempre 'a imagen y semejanza de Dios'.

  Pope Francis

  Hombres, nombres, diferencias

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• Soy muy buen arquero. Utilizo el tiro con arco como forma de meditación. No puedo sentarme y meditar en el sentido clásico. Soy muy activo. Así que utilizo el tiro con arco. Tengo mi arco, mi flecha y utilizo esta tensión y relajación en el segundo después de lanzar la flecha. Es mi manera de meditar y es lo único que me despeja la mente. Cuando hago tiro con arco, estoy totalmente allí con mi arco, mi blanco, mi flecha, y no pienso, estoy en comunión con el universo.

  Paulo Coelho

  Archer, Thinking, Arrows

  "Best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  Stephen Fry

  Ambition, Wrestling, Worry

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press

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• When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.

  Juan de la Cruz

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

  "Cántico Espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle)". Book by John of the Cross (Note to Stanza 29, Part 8), 1622.

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• No buscamos un Cristo inventado por nosotros, pues sólo en la comunión real de la Iglesia encontramos al verdadero Cristo.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Religion, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI (1996). “Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today”, p.81, Ignatius Press

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• Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Two, Solitude, Able

  "Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman" by Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima, translated by Paul Britten Austin, 1973.

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