Quotes about Relationship

Invitation is about being invited into a relationship where you have access to a person's life and all the vibrancy, safety, love and encouragement that reside there. To learn from the places you clearly see Jesus at work in people's lives, which you can see only by having access to them. But by accepting that invitation, you also accept the challenge that comes with it: The challenge to live into your identity as a son or daughter of the King.

You become part of the family by surrendering your agenda and joining God's deal.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

While I hate to ever lose a supporter, I've come to realize that one who would abandon me over a single statement or decision I made is a person who would abandon me sooner or later anyway.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

is chosen freely, not imposed from without. Essentially, submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. Submission means putting the needs, rights, and welfare of another person ahead of our own. A marriage built on this kind of submission will grow healthy, strong, and fulfilling.