Quotes About Connection

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Petersburg! I still possess a list of addresses,Which will help me to hear the voices of the dead.

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral symphony, so difficult and so inspired that the conductor must exert all his energy to keep the performers under his control.

És bela. Estar contigo é um dom como o de ver, como o dom de ouvir. Insensato seria estar junto de ti e não fruir o que és.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said: Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah.

Tenia unos ojos muy verdes y una mirada inteligente y cálida que me recordaba a otra, más lejana.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

As surely as we receive blessings from Him, He will pour out blessings through us. But whenever the blessings are not being poured out in the same measure they are received, there is a defect in our relationship with Him.

If we set out to serve God and do His work but get out of touch with Him, the sense of responsibility we feel will be overwhelming and defeating