Quotes about Relationships

Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Show me someone who cares about God's people, and I will show you someone who loves God. Show me someone who says they deeply love God but has little concern for his people, and I will show you someone spiritually delusional.

when people know you love and care about them, you can speak difficult truth and they will receive it.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

So many wounds are inflicted almost without thinking, aren't they? We never sin unto ourselves. Sin invariably involves others, usually affecting those who are closest to us.

Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.