Quotes about Connection

Prayer is what develops in us after we step out of the center and begin responding to the center, to Jesus.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.

The people of Birmingham also have souls.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking.

Writing to explore and discover what I didn't know. Writing as a way of entering into language and letting language enter me, words connecting with words and creating what had previously been inarticulate or unnoticed or hidden. Writing as a way of paying attention. Writing as an act of prayer.

The Latin words humus , soil/earth, and homo , human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.