Quotes about Relationship
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
— John Barrymore
We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
— John Bevere
There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.
— John Calvin
We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.
— John Calvin
When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him.
— John Calvin
God, in so speaking, lisps with us as nurses are wont to do with little children.
— John Calvin
God very commonly takes on the character of a husband to us. Indeed, the union by which he binds us to himself when he receives us into the bosom of the church is like sacred wedlock.
— John Calvin
By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.
— John Calvin
When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.
— John Calvin
And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns, so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.
— John Calvin
Our eye-beams twisted, and did threadOur eyes, upon one double string;So to entergraft our hands, as yetWas all the means to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.
— John Donne
If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
— John Donne