Quotes about Connection

Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love. And

I also heard a good metaphor from a rancher. He was talking cows, but I think it works with people too. He explained that there are two ways to keep your cows together. One is by building fences and gates. The other is by creating a really good food source. When you create a really good food source in the center, you don't have to worry as much about all the gates and fences and who's in and who's out.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.