Quotes about Relationship

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways," the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul's words display it; Jesus' actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has its ultimate — that is, it's paradigmatic — display. He sacrificially gave Himself for the good of those he befriended — people who were awkward and troubled types, people who did not offer Him anything particularly desirable in return.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.