Quotes About Connection

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

La paz viene cuando descansas en el hecho de que la gracia te conecta con Aquel que ha vencido todo aquello que puede atribular tu corazón y que no existe nada que pueda destruir esa conexión.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

It is found in knowing that your heavenly Father is not afraid of, or will not be defeated by, what makes you afraid or has the power to defeat you. Peace comes when you rest in the fact that grace has connected you to the One who has overcome everything that could cause your heart to be troubled, and nothing can sever that connection.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

Many Christians also live inside the church virtually unknown. They slip in and out of the weekly service almost unnoticed. Sure, they will exchange niceties with the people near them, and if they do that, they will learn a few cursory details about one another's lives, but they don't really have a relationship with the people with whom they worship.

We were designed to be social beings, to live in vertical community with God and horizontal community with others.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To put it another way, our lives were designed to be shaped more by our attachment to the Creator than by the creation. We were made to experience, to be part of, to be consumed by, and to live in pursuit of the one glory that is truly glorious—the glory of God.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

Met het verleden in mijn hand als een papiertje harlekijn, wanneer je aan het koordje trekt schieten armen en benen in beweging, je kan het ene niet stilleggen zonder het andere, op beklemmende wijze zit alles als een raderwerk met mekaar in verband.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Smellin' the beefaloes and leanpigs turnin' on their spits, holding a cold cheer-beer in my hand, watchin' the stars poppin' out one by one like random pixels on God's antique monochrome display, listenin' to the joyful chatter of my fellow gips, contemplatin' the easy job ahead of me, I was as near to heaven asI have ever been on this mostly sad ol' earth.

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as a rule, we are all happier when we give activities, like talking to friends, our full attention.

The most relaxing word in our vocabulary is 'we'. Imagine being able to say 'we'. Most people are in no position to say 'we'.

It is hard not to reciprocate a smile; people do so even if the smile they reciprocate is one shown in a photograph. People enjoy looking at most smiles, a fact well known to advertisers.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.

Father Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle, a German Jesuit who spent most of his life in Japan and became a Zen teacher, said somewhere that the precondition for addressing God as a "you" is the realization that we shouldn't.

In any case, when we pray for each other in this way, it is not a form of requesting divine interventions. It is a way of enabling the connecting Spirit to emerge rather than invade; it's activating the Spirit that is already there, rather than asking it to intervene from out there.

In real interreligious dialogue, heart speaks to heart. Only so can persons from differing traditions really "hear" each other.