Quotes About Connection

We are the messiah for somebody if not for everybody.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Do you not feel me near? I'm bending forward on the wind of thought, Sailing toward you on the lake of mind. O share this moment which may not be brought Ever to life again, once left behind.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

I don't think we don't love each other.

I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.

What waits me on the shelves? I cannot guess, But feel the sure foreboding; there will cry A voice of human laughter and distress, A word that no one needs as much as I.

My aunt touched my shoulder, I opened my eyes startled for a moment. She was smiling softly but I could see the tears sparkling in the corner of her eyes. "It's the same God, Frankie." I could feel the tension flow out of me. Suddenly I smiled at her. She was right: the Word meant God in no matter what language you spoke it—English, Latin or… Hebrew.

A man is a thousand parts, All of them other people." -Harold Robbins in The Inheritors

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there is no sorrow that love does not precede.

Funny how you can go along for years hardly thinking about someone, then all of a sudden be so glad to see him.

This is what it means to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not make up facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does not make up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.

If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.

when you are able to forgive yourself and to forgive people around you for not being perfect, I will recognize you as My child.

More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

Both love and true friendship are more than a way of knowing that we matter to someone else. They are a way of mattering to the world, bringing God into a world that would otherwise be a vale of selfishness and loneliness.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

The frenzy with which much of the church busies herself with things peripheral to the kingdom in a frantic attempt by her own ingenuity and effort to make God's name holy or make his kingdom come is a sign that something is radically wrong. The church has lost connection with Christ, her living head; she has listened to the siren calls of this world; she has succumbed to the prevailing culture instead of what Christ Jesus created her to be.

How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver's seat in the church's life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul.