Quotes About Connection

We live across the street from our Roman Catholic parish, 39 steps away from the holy water, so close that the church bells mark every moment of our day. We wake up to the pealing, we pause several times a day to hear the beautiful songs ring out.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.

My first steps in football came thanks to my big brother who taught me the game.

As I move forward and closer to God I think he's got something for me and I can feel it in my heart, as I keep making steps walking closer to God, I feel it more and more.

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

I'm going to grab something to eat," Lorelei said. "Would you like to come with me?" "No, thank you. I think I'll just stay here with him." Gabriel slowly lowered his face to rest his chin upon the bed near Aaron's frighteningly still hand. "I'm not feeling very hungry.

Marlowe lay on the floor nearby, the black Labrador's brown, soulful eyes locked upon his master's still body.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your skin. "No, child. But you can say goodbye to someone even after he's gone. You just have to find a way that's right for you.

If you have somebody willing to . . . meet the voter face-to-face and one-on-one, not only does it not cost any money in terms of postage, . . . you can hand them the material and you can give them that personal touch.

If you want to motivate people, then it's more important to think about what they want, rather than what you want.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.