Quotes about Connection
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
— Charles Spurgeon
As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.
— Charles Martin
She smiled, tilted her head, and . . . have you ever seen video of melting glaciers where huge chunks, the size of skyscrapers, break off and crash into the sea? If hearts could do that, then when her hair slid from behind her ear and down her eyes, and the right side of her lip turned up, I heard my heart crack down the middle.
— Charles Martin
Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.
— Charles Martin
You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy
— Charles Martin
All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. "To be known.
— Charles Martin
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
— Charles Martin
Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.
— Charles Martin
Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.
— Charles Martin
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not our last hello.
— Charles Martin
if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.
— Charles Martin