Quotes about Connection

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

I love you. I am your father and I love you. Try to understand that.

You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

The more we know the more we love.

She had so much more capacity for love than I had - I couldn't bring down that curtain round the moment, I couldn't forget and I couldn't not fear. Even in the moment of love, I was like a police officer gathering evidence of a crime that hadn't yet been committed [...]

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

A poll by researcher George Barna revealed that about 25 percent of the adults in the United States would go to church if a friend would just invite them.

It is important that we never separate our love for God from our love for others. For loving our neighbors as ourselves is one central way we love God.

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.