Quotes About Connection

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot;

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

I'm like a ripe stool, and the world's like a gigantic anus, and so we're about to let go of each other.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture.

In this way they would spend the remaining hours of their wakefulness, passing into a kind of tantric and ecstatic state of pleasurable feelings before eventually drifting off to sleep, feeling that they were very much in love and everything in the world was good.

le corps a faim [...] du battement d'un autre coeur pour régler le rythme du sien.

Without such beliefs and stories, as Carl Jung put it, we would be 'crushed by the sheer awe-fullness of the universe'. In other words, without a story to give us a place in the greater picture, we will become lost or, even worse, think that we are the story.

Just as you are now, so have I been; Just as I am now, so shall you be.

Allegory and metaphor work by linking together two normally unconnected ideas in order to startle the reader into seeing something they thought they knew in a different light. Strictly speaking metaphors aren't coincidences, as they are man-made, but they work the same trick: fusing unrelated entities to power a revelation.

Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. … And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.