Quotes About Connection

Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love

Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.

When you love someone, you can't help but pray for them.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

Prayer allows you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Prayer is the expression of your heart's sincere desires poured out to God.

For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

My friend, a relationship with God is the key, the key to all of life, including your marriage.

She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. As

The man did not even hear her. His eyes had gone straight to Mercy where she sat by the hearth, and her own eyes stared back, enormous in her white face. Then with a hoarse, wordless sigh, John Holbrook stumbled across the room, and went down on his knees with his head in Mercy's lap.

For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit's friendship and Hannah's gentle affection.

There is no escape if love is not there.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.