Quotes about Connection

Truth was the only superglue that could mend the cracks in her family.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is the more attractive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Only in Jesus Christ are we one, only through him are we bound together.