Communion Quotes

Welcome to the Communion Quotes page, a source of inspiration and reflection on the profound and sacred act of communion. Communion is a deeply meaningful ritual observed in various religious and spiritual traditions worldwide, symbolizing the union between individuals and the divine. It is a moment of spiritual connection, reflection, and nourishment of the soul. On this page, you will find a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes about communion that capture the essence and significance of this spiritual practice.

These quotes have been carefully curated to offer you a deeper understanding of communion and its role in bringing people closer to their faith and spirituality. Whether you are looking for words to include in a sermon, want to create beautiful imagery with these quotes, or simply seek inspiration for your personal reflections, you’ll find a diverse selection of quotes below. Feel free to copy them, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create meaningful and visually appealing content that resonates with the profound nature of communion. Explore these quotes and let them guide you in your spiritual journey.

We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I’ll work it into my communion liturgy. I’ll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I’ve seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material. Kevin DeYoung

It’s always hard when you’re playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There’s a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone’s idea of that. Gary Oldman

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

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

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. William James

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

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

It’s funny because I never studied, I never took a class. So everything I do is very innate and organic; I don’t really have words for it. It is a communion with spirit. I don’t get in my own way and allow the character to do what it’s going to do. Kimberly Elise

Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people’s discovery of these new artists was only skin deep. Ben Lovett

In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God. Pope John XXIII

I use both the ‘I’ and the ‘we.’ For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church’s communion. Pope Benedict XVI

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. Charles Spurgeon

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

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. Robert Lepage

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. Lynsey Addario

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God’s infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God. Meir Soloveichik

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. Pope Benedict XVI

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else’s suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. Mary Karr

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I’m not promoting myself. Ben Lovett

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. M. F. K. Fisher

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

I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain’s future – and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping ‘the least of these’ even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular. Gordon Brown

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. Michael Horton

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

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. Julian Barnes

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

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him. Pope Benedict XVI

I’ve put out records over the years, whether it’s with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records. Steven Wilson

Art has the power to bring people together – in communion. Shobana

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion – of becoming a global communion. So that’s why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself. George Carey

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

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements. Buzz Aldrin

When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they’ll always come first. But I’m a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life. Ben Lovett

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion. Tariq Ramadan

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. Ted Hughes

A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption. John Ralston Saul

Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn’t what I was after at all. Anselm Kiefer

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary. Charles Spurgeon

Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. Henri Nouwen

I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion. Tom Araya

Of course it’s always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable. Andy Muschietti

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

I’ve been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I’m able to worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival. Frederica Mathewes-Green

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it’s the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul. Paul Weller

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

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

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. Charles Spurgeon

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus. Charles Spurgeon

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly… When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves. George Stevens

I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly. Robert Crumb

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit. Pope Shenouda III

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. Michael K. Powell

My mother was an unbeliever – and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again. Frederica Mathewes-Green

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o’clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the ’60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing. Roger McGuinn

It is tradition in Ireland that you’re given money for your first communion. Roma Downey

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

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

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it. Sarah Bolger

It still amazes me how many musicians aren’t really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street. Charles Hazlewood

When you’re a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you’re telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn’t like that story, it doesn’t feel good. Carlton Cuse

The truth is, when you want a great show, it’s not ‘entertaining’ the audience – it’s you sharing with them… an experience of communion. Lizz Wright

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

I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can’t disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion. John Tavener

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

It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high. Edmund Morgan

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. Pope John Paul II

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people. Greg Boyle

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. Sue Monk Kidd

We’re incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it’s also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It’s a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking. Ben Lovett

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

Every time I’ve faced a tough challenge or had a setback of some kind, I’ve always gone back to my faith – in the Holy Trinity, the communion of saints, our holy Mother Mary. Justin Tucker

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also. Charles Spurgeon

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. George Muller

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