Quotes about Connection

In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.

The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

Without Me you can do nothing"… nothing.

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

Our effectiveness at the bottom of the ladder depends on our communication with the top. Popularity is not necessarily influence. 'Woe upon you,' said Our Lord, 'when all men speak well of you.' Greatest is our compassion for others and our ability to elevate them when we have come down from heaven. The bottom of the ladder is best discovered from the top.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God.