Quotes About Connection

A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are themselves rooted in their own cultural moment, is to diminish God's active presence here and now.

Humility, love, and kindness are our grand acts of faithfulness and how we show that we are all in. "No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us" (1 John 4:12). Loving each other is the closest we get to seeing God.

I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

I love humans, all humans. I often think that perhaps I was born into the wrong species.

I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing.

Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End." The Princess Bride (1987) – Grandpa (Peter Falk)

A human being cannot survive alone and be entirely human.

I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.

attachment relationship between infant and caregiver is itself an affective bond.

The unchallenged maintenance of a bond is experienced as a source of security and the renewal of a bond as a source of

issues of policy as well. They hit it off

In your eyes I am complete.

Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe, three dot.

When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.

This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

Her presence enables my absence.

G: Never fear. 10 yrs from now, when you're looking at this picture, I'm going to be looking at it with you. I love you, G.

It was the love. The name was a code, a cipher for the love you carried with you until you yourself were gone and your remembering was done.

Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i didn't have to ask him, because he just nodded toward his house. 'I bounce around them four walls a lot, Victor. I write some letters, I keep in touch with people. Putting your thoughts on paper, it makes you stop and notice stuff. Kind of slows you down.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.