Quotes About Connection

Before you begin, as in all prayer, remind yourself that you're in God's presence, and ask God to help you with your prayer.

God wants to be with you. God desires to be with you. What's more, God desires a relationship with you.

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Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Sometimes, when we feel the greatest need to be alone, it's the moment we should most welcome the company of others.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.

Talent in itself meant little; having the right people to appreciate it was everything.

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.

What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

A family who smokes together, chokes together.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

the girl.. her name was Shelly...

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

Some titles are inherited, though only when the bloodline or some other tangible connection with the original winner has been established, suggesting that the winners have continued to exist in their descendants. The heirs to titles are therefore obliged to display the appropriate emblems: a coat of arms or identifiable styles of speech, clothing, or behavior. It is a principal function of society to validate titles and to assure their perpetual recognition.

The death of an infinite player is dramatic. It does not mean that the game comes to an end with death; on the contrary, infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.

Speaker and listener understand each other not because they have the same knowledge about something, and not because they have established a likeness of mind, but because they know "how to go on" with each other (Wittgenstein).

Infinite speakers do not give voice to another, but receive it from another. Infinite speakers do not therefore appeal to a world as audience, do not speak before a world, but present themselves as an audience by way of talking with others. Finite speech informs another about the world—for the sake of being heard. Infinite speech forms a world about the other—for the sake of listening.

This is as much as to say that nature does have a voice, and its voice is no different from our own. We can then presume to speak for the unspeakable.

infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

When I forsake my genius and speak to you as though I were another, I also speak to you as someone you are not and somewhere you are not. I address you as audience, and do not expect you to respond as the genius you are.

What is your future, and mine, becomes ours. We prepare each other for surprise.