Connected Quotes

“If you’re going to get connected, you’re going to have to make peace with messy relationships. You’re going to have to be okay with letting others in when you are at your worst and your life is a total train wreck. You also must be willing to turn the tables. When other people’s lives are messy, you can’t turn a blind eye or offer cheap words of comfort. You must willingly walk into the mess, even if they’re hiding, and bear the bad stuff together.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“I want to be seen, to be understood deeply and to not be so very lonely.”1”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“The secret to feeling less alone is not to simply wish for others to come into your world to meet your needs. Instead it is to go into their world and meet theirs.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“What does knowing there’s a God have to do with our pride problem? Only God is perfect. If pride is an effort to maintain the illusion of perfection, it’s also an indication that we want to sit on the throne. We prefer the worship of others instead of connection to them. We’d rather be adored than be known. Humility is required to love and be loved as your authentic self. Pride fights for fake relationships built on hollow praise.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“want relationships to work like an ATM. I give to others, and they spit out exactly what I request. Instead, it’s more like a slot machine. I never know what I’m going to get in return, and sometimes I get nothing but X’s across the board.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“Loneliness can be the spark that pushes us to nurture our existing relationships and to make an effort toward new ones. It can also motivate us to reach out to our Maker with renewed passion and energy.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“It's paradoxical that spending time alone can ease our loneliness, but God's way rarely jibes with the way we want to get things done. If we want to be less lonely, we must make time to be alone. It is extra critical that we make time to be alone with God.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“When we let busyness crowd out the sacred, we get lonely. When we let our schedules crowd out God, we are left feeling desperately depleted.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“My pastor recently described the progression of sin in each of our lives by reading the famous poem, “There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk.” Here’s how it goes. Chapter One I walk down the street. There’s a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost . . . I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter Three I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in . . . it’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault . . . I get out immediately. Chapter Four I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter Five I walk down another street.2”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“Sometimes, we are lonely because we are so wrapped up in loving and being loved that we miss the opportunity to know and be known. Knowing and being known only happens when we allow the roots of our relationships to grow deep. #connected Sometimes, we are lonely because we are so wrapped up in loving and being loved that we miss the opportunity to know and be known. No. That wasn’t a typo. I wrote that sentence twice because I want it to permeate your heart. I want you to realize that being loved is not the same as being known. Just ask David, Whitney, Marilyn, and Diana. Love is based on what you can do for each other and what you look like when your best foot is pointing forward. Knowing and being known only happens when we allow the roots of our relationships to grow deep.”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together

“Valuing people means adopting an overt willingness to be inconvenienced. It means doing things that cannot be measured. #connected”
― Erin Davis, Connected: Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together