Quotes about Connection

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us.

Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.

Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God's will, our "weak prayers" move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with