Quotes about Relationship

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

I've noticed that two prayers in particular are among the riskiest a person can pray. [...] "God, open my eyes to who you really are, and then I'll open my life to you." [...] "God, here I am, fully submitted to you; use me as you have never used me before.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey1