Quotes About Connection

In evangelical-speak, this is meeting people where they are. But I would add the following caveat: we must meet people where they are without a desire to change them into our image of what they should be.

True love is a glimpse into Heaven

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

Where there is an absence of prayer there will be an absence of power. Where there is frequency of prayer there will be a continuing display of God's power.

What we do for the Lord is entirely dependent upon what we are in the Lord. Further, what we are in the Lord wholly depends upon what we receive from the Lord. And what we receive from the Lord is directly proportional to the time we spend alone with the Lord in prayer.

Just as the prisoner was being strapped into the electric chair, the priest said, "Son, is there anything I can do for you?" The prisoner said, "Yeah, when they pull the switch, hold my hand."

I couldn't believe it. Something as simple as a walk with my daddy was something I'd never done.

buscaba el olor puro del aliento, ese que acompaña a la palabra y al suspiro y convierte a una desconocida —pues la mayoría de las veces ni sabía ni sabría nunca el nombre de la donante— en alguien inolvidable.

El animal olía a cieno, a mucus, a hojas en descomposición, a algas machacadas, a madera mohosa, a tierra húmeda, el mismo olor sordo, inferior, un poco grasiento, que traía Katsuro cuando volvía del río; y, bajo los pechos de Miyuki, el corazón de la carpa latía con el mismo compás tranquilo, muy majestuoso sin lugar a dudas, que el de Katsuro algunas mañanas, inmediatamente después de haberse acostado con su mujer:

Elle y évoque à merveille ce malaise que l'on ressent lorsqu'on revient chez ses parents après avoir quitté non seulement le domicile familial mais aussi la famille et le monde auxquels, malgré tout, on continue d'appartenir, et ce sentiment déroutant d'être à la fois chez soi et dans un univers étranger

la familia real y la familia biológica, sin siquiera hablar de la familia política, coinciden con menos frecuencia de la que se cree, y las familias "ensambladas" no esperaron la década de 1990 para existir).

C'est bon d'avoir eu un copain. [...] On a toujours l'espoir qu'on restera copains, et que les moments passés ensemble ne seront pas effacés par de nouveaux souvenirs avec un autre.

C'est fou comme la mort, c'est soluble dans l'amour.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

In total reality, he comes in the form of the beggar, of the dissolute human child in ragged clothes, asking for help. He confronts you in every person that you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls you, speaks to you, makes demands on you.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.