Quotes about Connection

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason of the unity formed of many souls.

The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.

And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.

Therefore, on hearing His words let no one say either: "These are not Christ's words," or "These are not my words." On the contrary, if he knows that he is in the body of Christ, let him say: "These are both Christ's words and my words." Say nothing without Him, and He will say nothing without thee. We must not consider ourselves as strangers to Christ, or look upon ourselves as other than Himself.

He no more wished to speak alone than He wished to exist alone, since He says: Behold, I am with you all days, unto the consummation of the world (Matt. 28:20). If He is with us, then He speaks in us, He speaks of us, and He speaks through us; and we too speak in Him.

Though absent from our eyes, Christ our Head is bound to us by love. Since the whole Christ is Head and body, let us so listen to the voice of the Head that we may also hear the body speak.

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.