Quotes about Relationship

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without

and each spouse in the relationship should believe that the other is worth saving and the marriage is worth fighting for.

Everyone prays,' he pointed out. 'Even non-Christians pray. The difference when Christians do it is that they are climbing into the lap of their heavenly Father.

A prayer room is first and foremost a living room—a place where the Father waits for his children to come and climb into his arms.

We are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Jesus is what God sounds like. He's literally the "living Word of God." Hearing his voice is not so much a skill we must master, therefore, as a master we must meet.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.