Quotes about Connection

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

One can do many external deeds of love and still hold back the really precious gift, the inner self. This gift can be given only through communication.

You don't marry a position. You marry a person.

When we live for ourselves, we become boring. Most of us are simply not interesting enough on our own to captivate someone else for five or six decades.

Families start to break down—and marriages often break down, for that matter—when we stop enjoying each other.

Prayer is how we make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.

When I first began spending daily time in prayer, I often grew frustrated at how I could forget about God's presence by lunchtime, even after praying for an hour in the morning. Shorter but more frequent times of prayer may actually help us to live with an increasing awareness of God's presence in our lives. How difficult would it be for us to set aside five minutes in the morning, five minutes at noon, and five minutes before or after dinnertime to meet God in prayer?

life is richest when you give each moment of each day to God with the prayer, "Let me receive your love and pour it out on these people so that I can represent you every minute of the day."