Quotes about Relationships

True happiness results less from money than from our relationships—with ourselves, with other people, and with God.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

Even of marriage, the Lord said the two shall become one flesh. He did not say we'd become one heart. He did not say we'd become one mind.

You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.

Satan loves isolation. He wants to draw the believer out of healthy relationships into isolated relationships and out of healthy practices into secretive, unhealthy practices. He purposely woos us away from those who might openly recognize the seduction and call his hand on it. Let's beware of anything that separates us from godly people.

Matthew 5:43-46 Love God. Love one another. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. That about covers it. In Christ's meticulous census, the community exempt from the love of Christians has a population of exactly zero.

God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.

If we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:7

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

He replied to them, "My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God. "Luke 8:21

When we meet people flesh to flesh we meet people mess to mess.