Quotes about Connection

I don't miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.

I'd rather be nowhere with her then somewhere without her.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.