Quotes about Connection

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.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.