Quotes About Connection

Time spent in prayer is not time wasted but time invested.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

when we share our sorrow, our sorrow is halved, and when we share our joy, our joy is doubled.

When two elements are fused into one they become inseparable. A force of sufficient magnitude may destroy them, but it can never disjoin them. A man and a woman who have become "one flesh" under God's design for marriage cannot be separated without suffering great damage or even destruction. It would be the spiritual equivalent of having an arm or a leg torn from their bodies.

Prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart" (Jeremiah 24:7).

If man is to realize and maximize his true potential, a relationship with God is not an option.

Purpose is the raw material for your prayer life.

Prayer should not be open-ended. It should be purpose-driven, motivated by a knowledge of God's ways and intentions.

Finding A Way I'd like you for a friend. I'd like to find the way of asking you to be my friend. I don't know what to say. What would you like to hear? What is it I can do? There has to be some word, some look Connecting me to you.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

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by knowing a few people well, I know the whole world, for human nature is the same the world over and does not change. Having only a drop of water, a microscope, and a dream, I fashion from it the sea. I know it, perhaps, as he does not, who only crosses it in a ship.

When a man seeks a woman's society it is because he has need of her, not because he thinks she has need of him;

They say earth began with only two people, so I believe that it will end with to people...

When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.

And the simple act of listening is crucial to the concept of language, more crucial even than reading and writing, and language in turn is crucial to human society.

How many lifeless things are placed each day between us and the living earth? A friend in Brooklyn told me that his little son had gone out to watch workmen breaking up a sidewalk. He was fascinated to see earth under the cement. He had never seen it before.

When the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the Kiowa people; there was nothing to sustain them in spirit.

I am a man of the ancient earth For I have known the desert at dawn.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

Song of Longing Will you come to me now Thee white moon shines on the cornfields Evening falls among the melon rows The orange sun sets on the mountains The river runs sparkling on blue stones And the long reeds bend and sway I will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage Will you come to me now I sing in my heart of your coming I sing in my soul of your coming

Oh my brother, I hear your footsteps In the forest. They are strong and even; They sound the rhythm of your great heart.