Quotes About Connection

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my motherís sons,

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah