Quotes about Connection

He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

Actually, this is a good thing, because it forces us to recognize our need for each other. It's part of God's plan. We were created to live in community. We are designed by God for relationships. The very first thing God said to mankind was "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). God hates loneliness. So he made us to need each other.

The Bible is filled with verses on the importance of community. Hebrews 10:25 says, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another" (NIV 1984). Galatians 6:2 says, "By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ" (NCV).

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.