Quotes About Connection

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Preaching is not talking to people about the Bible; it is talking to people about themselves from the Bible.

Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.

Prayer keeps the burden fresh. It keeps our eyes and hearts in an expectant mode.

It's unfortunate that someone can grow up hearing sermons and Sunday school lessons, yet never be captivated by the Scriptures.

With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts together.

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

you want me to follow you on a journey, you have to come get me. The journey must begin where I am, not where you are or where you think I should be.

There is a direct correlation between a person's private devotional life and his or her personal faith. And regardless of how long you've been in ministry, this is something you can't afford to lose sight of. When God speaks to us personally through his Word or answers a specific prayer, our faith is strengthened.

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

Don't be so concerned about keeping the folks you've got, that you neglect the folks you're trying to reach.

prayer takes us well beyond human possibilities.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

If indeed we shall never return to our birthplace; if indeed we have been abandoned by the gods; we are still answerable to the names of our beloveds.

Quizá eso que silencio sólo puedas decírmelo tú. Y noto que, a tu modo, me lo dices.

Sin ti la poesía ya no me dice nada, y nada tengo que decirle a ella.

Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?

Together is my favorite place to be." "Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is." "You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.