Quotes about Relationship

Life in the Spirit of Jesus is therefore a life in which Jesus' coming into the world—his incarnation, his death, and resurrection—is lived out by those who have entered into the same obedient relationship to the Father which marked Jesus' own life. Having become sons and daughters as Jesus was Son, our lives become a continuation of Jesus' mission.

Community as discipline is the effort to create a free and empty space among people where together we can practice true obedience.

God is the hub of the wheel of life. The closer we come to God the closer we come to each other. The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully "together.

Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

Real loneliness comes when we have lost all sense of having things in common. When

But once I am able to truly confess my most profound dependence on others and on God, I can come in touch with my true self and real community can develop.

crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him. Real prayer comes from the heart.

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.

Many mature, successful men in this life often might still treat God as part of themselves. God is the factotum which comes in handy in times of illness, shock, final exams, in every situation in which we feel insecure. And if it does not work, the only reaction may be to cry louder. Far from becoming the Other, whose existence does not depend on mine, he might remain the easy frame which fits best around the edges of my security.