Quotes about Connection

The marriage relationship allows us to experientially identify with God and his relationship with Israel.

When you sexually reconnect, you feel the effects of this neurochemical cement. Learning to disregard this cement (which you must eventually do to break things off) will undercut the positive effects it has in marriage. You must train yourself to ignore what God created you to pay attention to.

Becoming one — in the deepest, Most intense sense — takes time. It takes at least the span of a decade for the sense of intimacy to really display itself in the marriage relationship.

Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

What I'm suggesting is that we connect our marriages with our faith in such a way that our experience in each feeds the other. By learning to respect others, meet each other's sexual needs, overcome dissension, and use the analogies of marriage to foster more creative prayer, we can build and maintain active, growing, and meaningful prayer lives while at the same time developing stronger marriages.

for now I'm just throwing it out there and asking you to at least consider that romantic attraction, as wonderful and as emotionally intoxicating as it can be, can actually lead you astray as much as it can help you. I'm not talking it down; "connecting" with someone on that level is a wonderful thing. Enjoy it, revel in it, even write a song about it if you want, but don't bet your life on it.

The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between; the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do.

I've heard you say that before: 'I seek the brethren.' But what then?" "You listen.

But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.