Quotes about Relationships

The ties that bind a family together must surely mean more in the Spirit than we can know in the flesh.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

Surely love is both work and wages.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

An ingenious man can hardly stay with a people against their will; and a sincere man can more hardly, for any interest of his own, remain in a place where he is likely to be unprofitable, to hinder the good which they might receive from another man, who hath the advantage of a greater interest in their estimation and affection.

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

Even with all the best intentions in the world, given our different temperaments, backgrounds, and the way we process our data and information, we are going to step on one another's toes. Two people with absolutely good will can deeply hurt one another. Good people hurt one another because we all come at reality in different ways. That's why, for Jesus, the only way to achieve union is through forgiveness, not through making sin impossible.

What we all desire and need from one another, of course, is that life energy called eros! It always draws, creates, and connects things.

eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with. Please think about that for a while.