Quotes About Connection

When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your spouse, the world looks bright. But if the love tank is empty, and you don't feel loved by your spouse, the world begins to look dark.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

Contact with a small baby can conjure at least an echo of that feeling in those who are not obscured by an uprush of maternity to the brain. Of course it is not really so cut-and-dried as all this; but often the only way of attempting to express the truth is to build it up, like a card-house, of a pack of lies.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

recent research has shown that when we empathize, the brain activates many of the same networks as when we ourselves experience pain, physical or otherwise.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. —TERESA OF ÁVILA

If we are a people rich in social relationships, we are rich indeed. Whenever we develop significant friendships with those who are not like us culturally, we become broader, wiser persons.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

It is important to recognize this fact and be easy with yourself. This time will pass—sooner than you think. Rather than trying to pray in some fanciful isolation that you will never find, discover God in your times with your baby. God will become real to you through your baby.

We simply cannot consider the earth apart from Christ's footsteps imprinted upon it.

We pass from thinking of God as part of our life to the realization that we are part of his life.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Superficiality is the curse of our age.

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God.

The Covenant of Place gives us the gift of focus.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. When our reply to God is most direct of all, it is called adoration.

Remember that God's intention is that we each come to a fuller knowledge of him as we deepen our personal fellowship with one another." —Richard J. Foster and others, eds., The Life with God Bible 4

To be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers.

Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try

This form of meditation is best accomplished with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other!

1 Corinthians 12:12, 14–25 IN COMMUNITY WE learn of our individual responsibilities to God and our corporate responsibilities to one another. There are exceptions, to be sure, but sustaining a life with God without an active, living connection to a visible expression of the Body of Christ is virtually impossible and is not a goal to be sought after. Have

Praying with frequency gives us the readiness to pray again as needed from moment to moment. The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer—the responses of our Father to our requests—our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life." —Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines4