Quotes about Connection
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
— Henri Nouwen
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.
— Pope John Paul II
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
— Mary Baker Eddy
There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
— Shane Claiborne
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
— James Faust
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
— Washington Irving
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
— Henry David Thoreau
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
— Washington Irving
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
— Marianne Williamson
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
— Henri Nouwen
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
— George Washington