Quotes About Connection

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue.

Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.

Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life.

Prayer is a heart exercise. It's an act of communicating with God about what's most important and pressing in your life.

You are never far removed from God's love and mercy.

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships.

Toward a Life of Prayer

Nathan speaks suddenly, with violence, against Roy's shoulder. "I like you a whole lot. I really do. And I want you to like me the same way." "I do," he says.

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.

In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with his beloved or whether she will laugh at him. He does read her the poem and her feminine capacity for romanticism for a moment approaches his own and they are suffused in a love trance, a state that so ineluctably peels back the senses making them fresh again whatever ages the lovers might be.

Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness. I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

I hope to define my life, whatever is left, by migrations, south and north with the birds and far from the metallic fever of clocks, the self staring at the clock saying, "I must do this." I can't tell the time on the tongue of the river in the cool morning air, the smell of the ferment of greenery, the dust off the canyon's rock walls, the swallows swooping above the scent of raw water.

I've been lucky to spend a life pretty close to the earth up here in the north. I learned in those three days that the earth is so much more than I ever thought it was. It was a gift indeed to see all sides of everything at once. This makes it real hard to say good-bye. My family will be with me just like that old raven falling slowly down through the tree.

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.

I began walking at your age just because the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

They merged again one evening sitting on the porch swing watching fireflies and the thousands of stars above them, idly moving the swing back and forth with their feet. The night was unbearably beautiful with the constellations speaking their own strange language to each other. He told her he thought it might be the uninvented language used by Jesus and the Buddha to speak to each other.