Quotes about Connection

You always have God's undivided attention.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

"Adam... My soul is so knit to yours that it is but a divided life I live without you. And this moment, now you are with me, and I feel that our hearts are filled with the same love..." What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Couples who have growing, fulfilling marriages have thought lives that are positive and healthy. What happens between the couples is a reflection of the inner workings of each person's mind and heart.

It is the proper function of the theologian to go back and forth, like the angels on Jacob's ladder, between heaven and earth and to weave continually new connections between them.

In the mother's smile, it dawns on him that there is a world into which he is accepted and in which he is welcome, and it is in this primordial experience that he becomes aware of himself for the first time.