Quotes about Relationships

So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God's presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit's power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God's nature by how they relate.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.