Quotes about Connection
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
— Henri Nouwen
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
— Marianne Williamson
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.
— Brother Lawrence
God didn't want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.
— Bruce Wilkinson
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
— John Wesley
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
— Desmond Tutu
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
— CS Lewis
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
— John Ortberg
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
— Samson Raphael Hirsch