Quotes About Connection

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Et c'était pas un hasard. Je veux dire : on n'était pas là par hasard. On n'avait pas besoin de se le dire pour savoir qu'on était faits du même bois, un bois un peu pourri, mais un beau bois quand même.

On peut être libre à plusieurs, j'ai dit. Moi, j'ai connu des solitudes qui ressemblaient vachement à des prisons.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

Paris'te ayn? evi payla?t???m Betty Rayn adl? k?z olmasayd? Yunanistan'a belki de hiç gitmeyecektim.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.

Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love!

There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

Love is the key-note of the universe--the theme, the melody.

Intimates are predestined.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Life is so short, So Fast The Lone Hours Fly, We Ought To Be Together, You and I

The children of God have more in common than they have differences. And even the differences can be seen as an opportunity. God will help us see a difference in someone else not as a source of irritation but as a contribution.

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.