Quotes about Connection

The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Marner took her into his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused with him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold--that the gold had turned into the child.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.