Top 1200 First Communion Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

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.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

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?

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

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

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

When I let some girl take me in her mouth I think this is what Jesus must feel like during communion.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

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.

It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

Hillary Clinton was the first professional First Lady, the first feminist First Lady, the first First Lady from the '60s generation, the first First Lady who was the breadwinner in the family. A lot of America liked and admired that. Some other parts of America found that unappetizing and even kind of threatening. So she became a flashpoint simply for who she was.

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.

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.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

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

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

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.

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café

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.