Quotes About Connection

Without prayer, you will never be able to have intimacy with God. Without prayer, you will not be able to follow the direction of the Holy Spirit.

Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief. Poetry embodies the complexity of feelings at their most intense and entangled, and therefore offers . . . the company of tears.

Generation after generation, my family's old people sat at this window to watch the year. There are beds in this house where babies were born, where the same babies died eighty years later.

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M. by Donald Justice Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora at 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on

PRAYER POINT: Listen to your heart and what is deepest within you. Pray short, heartfelt prayers, not trying to impress God but expressing your inmost feelings.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

When you can see God in small things, you'll see God in all things.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

Talk without effort is nothing.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.