Quotes about Connections

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.

Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings.

First of all, a sermon can never grasp the center, but can only itself be grasped by it, by Christ. And then Christ becomes flesh as much in the word of the pietists as in that of the clerics or of the religious socialists, and these empirical connections actually pose difficulties for preaching that are absolute, not merely relative.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.