Quotes about Connection
Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.
- Jurgen Moltmann
You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
- Don Cheadle
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
- Toni Morrison
One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.
- Matt Redman
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
- Thomas Merton
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
- Desmond Tutu
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
- Hans Kung
Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.
- Christine Caine
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
- Henri Nouwen
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
- Henri Nouwen
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
- Ayn Rand