Quotes about Connection

I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.

I want my prayers, and the prayers of my friends, to ricochet off the rock faces of mountains, reverberate down the corridors of shopping malls, sound ocean deeps, water arid deserts, find a foothold in fetid swamps, encounter poets as they search for the accurate word, mingle their fragrance with wildflowers in Alpine Meadows, sing with the looms of Canadian lakes.

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

All theology is rooted in geography.

It is far easier to deal with people as problems to be solved than to have anything to do with them in community.

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

The primary practice of language is not in giving out information but being in relationship.

Under the image of the Trinity we discover that we do not know God by defining him but by being loved by him and loving in return.

Living together means seeing the oil flow over the head, down the face, through the beard, onto the shoulders of the other—and when I see that I know that my brother, my sister, is my priest.