Quotes about Connection

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

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.