Quotes about Disconnect

You and I don't always live what we say we believe. There is often a disconnect between our confessional theology and our street-level functional theology. There is often a separation between, on the one hand, the doctrines we say we have embraced and, on the other hand, the choices we make and the anxieties that we feel.

When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.

Turn your phone off at 8:00 p.m. Give yourself some evening time for real things. And banish all technology from your bedroom.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Whenever we have fifteen free minutes, an hour or two, we have the habit of using our computers or cell phones, music, or conversations to forget and to run away from the reality of the elements that make up our beings.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

Nineteen words I counted them. That's all he had to say to me. Nineteen meaningless little words. And that's when my father died to me--right there in the driveway.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

She was positively unable to reply to Annetta's