Quotes about Connection

It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.

simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.

It occurs to me, in fact, that laughter has much in common with prayer. In both acts, we stand on equal ground, freely acknowledging ourselves as fallen creatures. We take ourselves less seriously. We think of our creatureliness. Work divides and ranks; laughter and prayer unite. Finding God in Unexpected Places(245

I remind myself that prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.

According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To

An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.

involvement with others was the most effective in quelling her pain.