Quotes About Relationships

Good relationships are always built on the foundation stones of identity and worship.

This passage is not encouraging unwise activity that overloads your schedule with church events and obligations. Nor does it ask you to turn normal relational moments into abnormal witnessing encounters.

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

He is near, with, and in you. This means there is hope for you, even in relationships that leave you confused and disappointed.

If I am going to love you as I should, I must worship God as Sovereign

much of the bad communication, needless conflict, and constant frustration stem from our responses to the ways the other person is different from us.

Are you frustrated with someone in your life? Have you been trying to reshape her to fit into your personal preferences?

Your everyday communication influences the shape, quality, and direction of your relationships.

Our background, relationships, situation, and physical condition only provide the opportunity for our thoughts, words, and actions to reveal whatever is already in our hearts. Our hearts are always the ultimate cause of our responses, and where the true spiritual battle is fought.

Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.

To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

It is easy to forget the impact our words have on every relationship. There

In this chapter we invite you to listen to your words and evaluate the way they shape your relationships.

God has a bigger agenda for our relationships than we do

Our template or road map is Ephesians 4. As you read it, ask yourself what it says about (1) the struggle of self-interest and (2) God's agenda for our relationships. This passage will be the grid you can use to look at the issues of relationship we address in this book.

If I gossip or engage in ungodly conflict, I harm the gift God has given. But if I am willing to pursue, forgive, and serve, I demonstrate care for these gifts.

Jesus is pointing to an internal reality of grace that expresses itself in observable changes in individuals and their relationships.

In other words, you can't take the gospel seriously and not take your relationships seriously.

Yet we are most true to our identity and calling when we live in the midst of broken people.