Quotes about Connection
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
- Carl Jung
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
- Pema Chodron
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
- Peter Kreeft
One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.
- Peter Kreeft
The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
- Peter Kreeft
when the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.
- Peter Kreeft
If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.
- Peter Kreeft
We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.
- Peter Kreeft
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
- Peter Kreeft
Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.
- Peter Kreeft
St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;
- Peter Kreeft
It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.
- Peter Kreeft