Quotes about Connection

Those closest to us have first claim to our acts of love.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us.

Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.