Quotes about Connection

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

It made me wonder, if everyone is so connected to their phones-talking and texting and whatever else it is they do all day long-how do they ever have time to notice the beauty of God's creation all around them? How do they have time to connect to God?

Stay on good terms with each other,' " he read slowly, putting emphasis on each word, "'held together by love.

But if you have so much fun, then why don't you get together more than once a month?' She looked at me like a wise old owl and winked. 'Do something too often and it stops being special.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith.

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Even of marriage, the Lord said the two shall become one flesh. He did not say we'd become one heart. He did not say we'd become one mind.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.