Quotes about Connection

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches." All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don't have to do anything. You've just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by "walk by the Spirit" is essentially "live in dependence on God's Spirit.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government.

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

We can be moved only by way of our veils. We are touched through our veils.

Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.