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“Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind ca...”
“As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by means of the dark night -...”
“Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.”
“The desire we so often hear expressed today for episcopal figures, priestly men, authoritative personalities springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for th...”
“God can only send the greater light when men's hearts are able to bear it.”
“The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.”
“Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and understand the hunger of other, different men and women, and make a gesture of welcome, and eat w...”
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”
“If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.”
“Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.”
“To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are.I want all of the holine...”
“We don't come to the table to fight or to defend. We don't come to prove or to conquer, to draw lines in the sand or to stir up trouble. We come to the table because our hunger brings us there. We ...”
“Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world -- this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world -- no matter how hard we try to escape into our minds and our ...”
“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, ...”
