Quotes About Relationships

If there is going to be authentic renewal, it will have to happen in families and local church communities.

How did people keep hold of reality under communist conditions? How do they know not only what to remember but how to remember it? The answer was to create distinct small communities—especially families and religious fellowships—in which it was possible both to speak truthfully and to embody truth.

In a time when people have forgotten how to be neighbors, simply sharing a meal or a movie together is a political act.

if you want to love and serve the church, the community, and the nation, you must first learn to love and serve your family.

If everyone, including himself, loved as they should love, they would love God more than they loved themselves and their passions.

If family is so important to us conservatives, why do so many of us bring into our daily lives so many things that take away from family life?

Love is not a contractual exchange. Love is given with no expectation of return. Love does not keep a ledger.

God has distributed his graces in such a way that we really need each other," said the priest. "Certainly there's the old man within me that craves individualism, but the more I live in community, the more I see that you can't have it and be faithful, or fully human.

ama la comunidad, pero no la idolatres».

As I see it, this is the core, this is the essence of everything right now: Forming these communities and networks of communities," she says. "Whatever kinds of communities you can imagine. The point is that the members of that community must be very supportive of one another, no matter what comes. You don't have to be prepared to give your life for the other person, but you do have to have something in common, and to do things together.

To love requires loving others and letting others love you.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Theres no misery in not being loved, only in not loving

Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.Not to get to know one another,not to get close enough to damage the heart made older by each new encounter.

They say the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm ' 'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it.

Friendship develops easily in the sunshine of joy and happiness, but the friendship that grows in the darkness of sorrow and tragedy has roots that are firmer and deeper, and blossoms that last much longer.