82 adjectives to describe communion

What an unspeakable consolation to be enabled to leave the dust behind, and hold sweet communion and converse with the spirit.

Believe that wherever two or three are gathered together in Christ's name, there He is in the midst of them; that the holy communion is the sign of His perpetual presence; and that when you kneel to receive the bread and wine, Christ is as near youspiritually, indeed, and invisibly, but really and trulyas near you as those who are kneeling by your side.

Neither was quite prepared for more intimate communion; and, of course, the returning traveler had much to do.

" "And yet," said Spalding, "if you will look into the philosophy of the matter, you will see that this diversity of tastes, as you call it, is not so great after all; that is, that the origin of the impulse which sends some men away from society among the solitudes of the wilderness, and of that which holds others in constant communion with the busy scenes of life, is very nearly the same.

She seemed to have lost sight that there is a spiritual communion which the soul can hold with its Saviour, and which needs not the help of outward shadows; but it is remarkable when our reasons for the disuse of such things are given in simplicity and love, how the feelings of others become changed towards us; they then see we do not refuse the administration of them out of obstinacy, but from a tender conscience.

"Before parting", says John Yeardley, M. Passavant asked for silence, and we had a sweet time of religious communion, in which consolation and encouragement were offered, and thanks rendered for the favor of being permitted to meet together, and for the favor of the Divine Presence.

And thus Mr. Spears, in the letter I mentioned above, tells us he related the matter to him, (for he studies as much as possible to retain the colonel's own words): "However," says he, "after that happy period of sensible communion, though my joys and enlargements were not so overflowing and sensible, yet I have had habitual real communion with God from that day to this"the latter end of the year

If you will ply the oars, gentlemen, we will now hold a little communion with the spirit of the Leather-stocking.

There are hundreds of thousands who have given their lives; there are millions who have given up comfortable homes and exchanged them for daily communion with death.

Nought but mishaps can come of wicked company, and accursed will they be, in the evil hour, that are found in brotherly communion, with one whose trade is hurrying Christians into eternity, before the time that has been lent by nature is fairly up.

They flocked to our inn at all times in the day and in considerable numbers, many acknowledging, in the course of very interesting conversation, that they thirsted for something more satisfying than mere doctrines continually repeatedsomething that would preserve from evil, that would cleanse the heart, that would bring into nearer communion with the Saviour.(Letter to Elizabeth Dudley.)

"It is by instinct, then; for it is certain I have had but little opportunity of acquiring my knowledge by actual communion with any of thecloth; nor do I perceive that I am likely to be more fortunate at present.

MYSTICISM, a state of mind and feeling induced by direct communion with the unseen, and by indulging in which the subject of it estranges himself more and more from those who live wholly in the outside world, so that he cannot communicate with them and they cannot understand him.

Among biographical commonplaces one frequently finds the generalization that it is the provincial who acquires the perspective requisite for a true estimate of a nation, and that it is the country-boy reared in lonely communion with himself who attains the deepest knowledge of human nature.

Him I often visited, and my conversations with him on political, moral, and philosophical subjects gave me, in addition to much valuable instruction, all the pleasure and benefit of sympathetic communion with a man of the high intellectual and moral eminence which his life and writings have since manifested to the world.

The German princes have daily accused you to us of a great number of crimes, for which those nobles maintain that you ought to be interdicted, during your whole life, not only from royalty and all public function, but also from all ecclesiastical communion, and from all commerce of civil life.

I drink their wine and esteem dwelling in their sight a rare communion with the best of nature.

The joys of intellectual communion were submerged and almost lost in the new, strange feeling which crowned and glorified their lives.

Sanctum nomen amiciticae, sociorum communio sacra; friendship is a holy name, and a sacred communion of friends.

An Indian was engaged in cooking a piece of meat, while the missionary and his reclaimed jewel, sitting side by side, her head reclining upon his shoulder and his hand dallying with her hair, were holding delightful communion.

A few minutes of solemn silence followed, in which it is impossible to convey in words the earnest prayerful expression of her countenance and uplifted eyes, when it seemed as if, regardless of any thing around her, she held immediate communion with her God.

Loving, great-hearted, unselfish, cheery, practical, hard-working, he yet draws his greatest inspiration from that silent inner communion with the Master he serves with such single-hearted, unfaltering devotion.

For a time he felt how much better, finer, more enjoyable, more beautiful, was this life of innocent communion with a pure soulpure, if just a little insipid, after the real spankers he had hitherto affected.

And if I did not know it and see it, where would be the invisible communion of our spirits and the beautiful magic of this communion?

It is there that divine influences and joyful communions fill with gladness the hour.

82 adjectives to describe  communion