Quotes About Connection

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart when he lays his head on his mother's lap; it threatens to swallow him whole when he leaves his own country, even though he marries and travels and talks to friends twenty-four hours a day. That is the way Sirine suspects that Arabs feel everything - larger than life, feelings walking in the sky.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.

She wonders sometimes if it's a sort of flaw or lack in her - the inability to lose herself in someone else. . . . she's never quite understood how people could trade in quiet spaces and solitary gardens and courtyards, thoughtful walks and the delicious rhythms of work, for the fearful tumult of falling in love.

it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.

The trouble with life is that incidents so often merely follow each other rather than grow out of each other ...

Something that her love had made would still be alive.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

We are safer and happier when we care for each other in community, when we do things for each other.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Enacting love was a critical aspect of experiencing love. Devotion and ethics intertwined.

I'm waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.

What we need is here. —Wendell Berry

Phyllis Tickle, Marcus Borg, Brian McLaren, Barbara Brown Taylor, Jim Wallis, and Lauren Winner for their encouragement, support, and friendship. Anne Howard, Joseph Stewart-Sicking, Linnae Himsl Peterson, Kathy Staudt, Jonathan Wilson, and Howard Anderson are good friends who offered insights along the way.

The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

difficulties in interpersonal functioning, particularly with intimacy and empathy.