Quotes about Relationships

The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.

Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.

After all, it takes a lot of planning to marry the wrong person.

That would hurt the one I love the most.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.

People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him.

How we treat, talk about, respond to, and care for one another is the identifying mark of a genuine Jesus follower. Not what we believe.

Kindness is love's response to weakness.

Intimate relationships are not built on obedience. They are built on trust. Walking by faith, again, is simply living as if God is who he says he is and that he will do everything he has promised to do. As a person's confidence in God grows, he or she matures.