Quotes about Connection

However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time to get alone with him, and to give him time everyday to work in you, and to keep up the link of connection between you and himself, he cannot give you that blessing of his unbroken fellowship.

Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.

Love—God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

The blood was shed to unite us to God.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.

Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part.

He became the true Vine, that we might be true branches. Both in regard to Christ and ourselves the words teach us the two lessons of absolute dependence and perfect confidence.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

The relationship among the members of the church depends on united and unceasing prayer. This relationship is spiritual and can only be maintained by unceasing prayer.

Our love for God is measured by our everyday interaction with men and the love it displays.