Quotes about Connection

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.

"She satisfies my ideal." Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be "love at first sight" is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a dream.

They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

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.