Quotes About Connection

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

essential prayer is conversational. It

You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him,he will be found by you. (2 Chronicles 15:2)

When we abandon ourselves to love, we find ourselves closer to the one who is always doing that Himself. We find God.

Then I ask for more of God: Jesus—I need more of you; fill me with more of you, God. Restore our union; fill me with your life.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

To see you in love is far more powerful than any other lesson. A picture is worth a thousand words. It's important that your sons see your physical affection, to see you kiss, cuddle on the couch, hold hands in public. Oh, sure—they'll say they're "grossed out," tell you to "get a room." But they are watching and learning.

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

We are all tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

All of us have the same percentage of salt in our blood in our sweat and in our tears and when we go back to the sea we go back whense we came

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.