Quotes about Connection
You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
— Mother Angelica
In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.
— Henri Nouwen
Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows.
— John Milton
Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
— John Milton
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,In a light fantastic round.
— John Milton
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
O my Savior, Shield, and Sun, Shepherd, Brother, Husband, Friend, Every precious name in one; I will love thee without end.
— John Newton
We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are
— John Newton
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
— John Ortberg
No matter how little money we have, no matter what rung we occupy on anybody's corporate ladder of success, in the end what everybody discovers is that what matters is other people. Human beings who give themselves to relational greatness—who have friends they laugh with, cry with, learn with, fight with, dance with, live and love and grow old and die with—these are the human beings who lead magnificent lives.
— John Ortberg