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Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine. -- Countee Cullen
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. -- C. S. Lewis
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. -- J. F. Powers
I tasted the bread and wine of equality. -- Anzia Yezierska
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine. -- Wes Smith
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You. -- Anthony Mary Claret
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. -- John Burroughs
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him. -- Abbott Eliot Kittredge
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. -- Jane Grey
SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you. -- Sara Teasdale
If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine. -- Anais Nin
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. -- C. S. Lewis
But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, "Welcome! There's bread and wine. Come eat with us and talk." This isn't a kingdom for the worthy; it's a kingdom for the hungry. -- Rachel Held Evans
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature. -- Euell Gibbons
The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus. -- Sam Storms
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap. -- Theodore Parker
At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself. -- John Gibson Paton
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
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. -- Jane Grey
What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace? -- William Gurnall
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. -- Omar Khayyam
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. -- M. F. K. Fisher
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. -- Edward Fitzgerald
I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. -- Geraldine Brooks
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
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. -- Paracelsus
I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise. -- Rachel Nichols
I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky. -- Rachael Taylor
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. -- Randle Cotgrave
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are. -- Michelangelo
We look for wine when we should be hunting bread. -- Kirk Douglas
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. -- Jean Paul
Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music. -- Belva Plain
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. -- M. F. K. Fisher
You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet andâ??somehowâ??the wine. -- Billy Collins
A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5) -- Edna Hatlestad Hong
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you. -- Oswald Chambers
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior... -- Vincent de Paul
Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. -- Patience Gray
What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour. -- William Butler Yeats
A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. -- Omar Khayyam
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. -- Richard Wagner
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine. -- Rudyard Kipling
I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all. -- Sarah Miles

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