Quotes About Connection

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer

Spiritual love will speak to Christ about a brother more than to a brother about Christ.

Beten heißt ja nicht einfach das Herz ausschütten, sondern es heißt, mit seinem erfüllten oder auch leeren Herzen den Weg zu Gott finden und mit ihm zu reden. Das kann kein Mensch von sich aus, dazu braucht er Jesus Christus.

Just as Christ maintained his communion with the Father by his endurance, so his followers are to maintain their communion with Christ by their endurance.

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend

Beten heißt Gott nahekommen und nahe bleiben wollen, weil er uns nahegekommen ist. Beten können wir nur, weil Christus da ist, in ihm hat unser Gebet seinen Grund, denn durch ihn haben wir Gott zum Vater.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.

Sometimes, visualize that your heart is a brilliant ball of light. As you breathe out, it radiates rays of white light in all directions, carrying your happiness to all beings. As you breathe in, their suffering, negativity and afflictions come towards you in the form of dense, black light, which is absorbed in your heart and disappears in its brilliant white light without a trace, relieving all beings of their pain and sorrow.

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

Prayer is not about a list; prayer is about a lifestyle.

Treat people like family because they are.

Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Sitting on the sidelines in our interconnected world is not a sufficient response.