Quotes about Connection

As our "great high priest," Jesus is our bridge, the only way to God.

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

Abba is best translated "Dear Father." It is a term of intimacy, but it also contains a sense of obedience.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute—and absolutely unknown—future.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

There's one thing that 82 percent of all unchurched people can't seem to resist. It cuts through their defenses and penetrates their barriers. According to surveys at LifeWay Research, 82 percent of them seem to have a single weakness: if a friend, or someone they know, invites them to church. Reread that: 82 percent of all unchurched people would come to church this weekend if they were invited by a friend.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

Anyone can believe God exists but still maintain a life apart from him.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.