Quotes about Relationship

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.