Quotes about Connection

I want to go places where there are really well-meaning people doing work that is interesting and seems to really matter and where everybody looks like at least once a day they have a really good laugh.

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

I really believe in prayer.