Communion Day Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Frank O'Connor

#3. I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before ... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.

Samuel Rutherford

#4. I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.

Therese De Lisieux

#5. If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Francis Of Assisi

#7. 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

#8. The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.

Mary Potter

#9. It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.

John G. Lake

#10. If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Oswald Chambers

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

Leonard Of Port Maurice

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

Warren W. Wiersbe

#13. Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#14. Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

Kevin DeYoung

#15. 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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

William Osler

#17. While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

Andy Murray

#18. Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death ...

Georges Rodenbach

#19. [Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer ... No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

Billy Graham