Quotes about Relationships

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

You and me, we've made a separate peace.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.