Quotes about Connection

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

I've yet to meet anyone who has come closer to Jesus by forsaking the church.

We cannot see God in the other person. Only God in us can see God in the other person.

And for you who will make this spiritual journey with me, I hope and pray that you too will discover within yourselves not only the lost children of God, but also the compassionate mother and father that is God.

Only when we recognize the rich network of connections between the Eucharist and our life in the world can the Eucharist be "worldly" and our life "Eucharistic.

We see him or her as a limited expression of an unlimited love.

To live and serve and worship with others thereby brings us to a place where we come together and remind each other by our mutual interdependence that we are not God, that we cannot meet our own needs, and that we cannot completely fulfill each other's needs.

Sensing the touch of God's blessing hands and hearing the voice calling me the Beloved are one and the same.