Quotes about Connection

They sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

have discovered from personal experience that one can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

There are thousands of people like her, people who are ill from "ingratitude," loneliness, and neglect. They long to be loved; but the only way in this world that they can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.

Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

The familiar words of Jesus are "Without me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). But these must be balanced by the insight that, in general, if we do nothing it will certainly be without him.

We have the ability and responsibility to keep God present in our minds, and those who do so will make steady progress toward him, for he will respond by making himself known to us.

People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.

If we are not prepared to use our power of choice to turn our minds to God, then we do not have contact with God.

Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.

God seeks us. The basic nature of God is one of loving community.

It helps to have some idea of what it would be like to go through a day with Jesus.