Quotes about Connection

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

All of us are beggars here.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.

Prayer changes the person who prays.

God does hear what we pray. You don't need a megaphone or a million people to get His attention. But the point of prayer is not to get what we want. Prayer changes the person who prays.

Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?