Quotes about Connection

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

Oswald Chambers, a man who wrote profoundly and elegantly on prayer, made a radical statement when he said, "The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God." Good heavens—it's not? What then is the purpose? "Prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God." A mighty truth is being uncovered here.

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.

Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?

The most essential gift you have to give is yourself.

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.