Quotes about Connection

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Before you can cry to God and seek him God must come to you and must have found you

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot.

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.